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How do mechanical and chemical digestion take place in the mouth?
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∙ 14y ago
Mechanical digestion is done by the action of upper and lower jaw, grinding food between the teeth.
Chemical digestion is begun in the mouth by enzymes secreted by the salivary glands that begin to chemically break food particles into smaller components that can be absorbed by the body and used for metabolism. Chemical digestion continues in the stomach and small intestine.
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∙ 15y agoMechanical digestion is chewing food in the mouth, churning of food in the stomach, and the emulsification of fats by bile.
Chewing occurs in the mouth. Mechanical: Firstly,one must understand that mouths are not macienery, so they have no mechanical parts in them, however, the muscles in them move the jaw up and down, so the teeth can dice and grind food. Chemical:There are a series of small organs beneath and behind the human mouth, called salivary glands that produce saliava. Saliava is, as you probably know, a weak acid that breaks down food.
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∙ 14y agoMechanical digestion takes place in the mouth when your tongue and teeth break up food into smaller pieces. Chemical digestion takes place in your mouth because you have to make it softer by chewing. Then your tongue mixes it around with saliva. Then it starts to break down starch into sugar(for cells) so it could go to your esophagus (by swallowing) to begin digestion.
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∙ 14y agoMechanical digestion involves chewing and manipulating the food with your tongue. Chemical digestion occurs as a result of salivary amylase and lingual lipase breaking down carbs and fats, respectively.
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∙ 12y agoMechanical Digestion are teeth, tounge, and saliva all mix together to get our food in to a wet subance to start digesting
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∙ 13y agoThe chewing of the food and the saliva moisturizing the food so it can go down the esophagus
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∙ 11y agoSaliva contains the enzyme ptyalin which digests some of the starch to maltose.
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Most mechanical digestion takes place where?
In the Mouth then the second is the Stomach
What body parts is not involved in mechanical digestion?
Chemical digestion takes place in the stomach, the intestines, (saliva or enzymes) these parts of your body also use mechanical digestion.
Where does most of the chemical digestion take place in humans?
It is the Duodenum!Actually, most chemical digestion, in humans, takes place in the small intestine.Chemical digestion takes place in the small intestine, the stomach and the mouth.
Where the first chemical digestion takes place?
In the mouth? Saliva is a digestive enzyme. Maybe im missing the main point of this question.
What is the medical term meaning the chemical and mechanical breakdown of food in the body?
The answer is digestion. It's the process that breaks down food into small molecules so that they can be absorbed and moved into the blood. From the blood, food molecules are transported across the cell membrane to be used by the cell. Unused molecules pass out of your body as wastes. There's two types of digestions: Mechanical and Chemical. Mechanical digestion takes place when food is chewed, mixed, and churned. Chemical digestion occurs when chemical reactions occur that break down large molecules of food into smaller ones.
Is mechanical digestion takes place in the mouth?
Yes. Mechanical digestion in the mouth is when you are chewing. There is also chemical digestion which is the enzymes in saliva that start to break up starches into simple sugars in saliva.
What 2 types of digestion takes place in the mouth?
Mechanical and chemical digestion. In mechanical digestion the teeth breakdown food into smaller pieces and in chemical digestion the salivary glands breaks down the food molecules.
Where does chemical and mechanical digestion take place?
what is responsible for chemical digestion in earthworms
Most mechanical digestion takes place where?
In the Mouth then the second is the Stomach
Compare mechanical and chemical digestion?
actually the mechanical digestion takes place first in our body that is the whole process of digestion we normally study. where the whole process is of getting things like glucose, minerals, proteins etc.. but the chemical digestion takes place at the cellular level means in the cells that is the break down of glucose in getting energy to work or metabolism of the cells
What body parts is not involved in mechanical digestion?
Chemical digestion takes place in the stomach, the intestines, (saliva or enzymes) these parts of your body also use mechanical digestion.
Was is mechanical digestion?
The very minute food enters the mouth it goes through the digestion process. There are 2 digestive system function processes that take place in our body. These 2 processes are the mechanical digestion and the chemical digestion.
What type of Mechanical digestion takes place in your mouth stomach and small intestines I?
Chemical and mechanical ingestion take place in the mouth. Chemical and mechanical digestion also take place in the stomach. Chemical digestion takes place in the small intestine.Ingestion, digestion then absorption.In the mouth, both chemical digestion and mechanical digestion happen. The mechanical part is your teeth crushing the food into smaller pieces. The chemical part is when the salivary glands give off a special fluid that contains enzymes. When food enters the stomach, an enzyme is released that helps to digest food chemicaly. The muscles in the stomach also digest food mechanicly. Lastly, the small intestine completes the chemical and mechanical digestion of food. The small intestine takes out all the useful matirial and sends it to the cells as tiny molecules that the cells use in cellular resparation.Baisicly, they all use chemical and mechanical digestion.
Does mechanical or chemical digestion take place in the rectum?
welll it takes place in both mechanical and chemical
Type of digestion that takes place in the mouth and stomach?
Both chemical and mechanical digestion take place in the mouth and stomach. The organs both break food into smaller parts, and use enzymes to break down food chemically.
Where does mechanical digestion take place at the most?
The mouth, by the teeth.
Where does most of the mechanical digestion take place?
in the mouth when you chew
