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What is a feature of peristalsis?
Peristalsis is a wave-like muscle contraction that moves food through the digestive tract. It helps to push food along the esophagus, stomach, and intestines, allowing for the digestion and absorption of nutrients.
What is a wavelike motion that pushes food downward?
Peristalsis is the wavelike motion of muscles that pushes food downward through the digestive tract. It helps propel food and liquids from the esophagus to the stomach and through the intestines for digestion and absorption.
In vertebrates food is moved along the length of the digestive system by?
Peristalsis, which is a series of coordinated muscle contractions and relaxations that push food along the digestive tract. These contractions help move food from the mouth to the stomach and through the intestines for digestion and absorption of nutrients.
What is the function of peristalsis?
Peristalsis is a series of coordinated muscle contractions that help move food and liquids through the digestive system. This process starts in the esophagus and continues through the stomach and intestines, aiding in the digestion and absorption of nutrients.
What part do muscle in digestion?
Muscles play a crucial role in digestion by helping to move food through the digestive tract. In the mouth, throat, and esophagus, muscles help to chew and swallow food. In the stomach and intestines, muscles contract and relax to push food along and aid in the mixing and digestion process.
How fast does food move through the pancreas?
Food does not move through the pancreas. While the pancreas produces substances that react chemically with food in the small intestines, the food does not come into contact with the pancreas.
What is a pyloric cecum?
Its a ring of muscles that move an animals food through its stomach and intestines.
Do intestines have muscular tissues?
Yes, the intestines are lined with smooth muscle tissue to move the food through with contractile waves called peristalsis.
What makes is possible for food to be transported through the digestive system?
The term is peristalsis. This refers to smooth muscle tissue contracting rhythmically to move food (bolus) through the intestines.
What is perstalisis?
Peristalsis is the coordinated muscular contractions that move food through the digestive system. These contractions help push food from the esophagus to the stomach and then through the intestines for digestion and absorption of nutrients.
What is the pathway food travels through in the digestive system in order?
first the food passes through your esophagus then to your small intestines and then your large intestines
Muscular waves or contractions that move food are called?
Peristalsis is the term used to describe the muscular waves or contractions that move food through the digestive tract. These contractions help propel the food from the esophagus to the stomach and then through the intestines for digestion and absorption of nutrients.
What kinds of muscles move food through the digestive system?
I believe that the food moves through the system by only gravity and not any muscles. This is do to the fact that our intestines are angled downward. Wow...gravity has nothing to do with this at all.
Does fiber help move food quickly through the intestines?
No, it increases the speed that the food breaks down in your stomach.
What are the examples of unrefined carbohydrates?
examples of unrefines carbohydrates are fruits they are high in fibre which helps the digestive system move oour food through the intestines.
How does a cuttlefish digests its food?
it digests its food by making it go through its intestines
Does food pass through the appendix?
Food only passes through your stomach and intestines not the appendix.
