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Chemical digestion takes place in the stomach, the intestines, (saliva or enzymes) these parts of your body also use mechanical digestion.

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Is the anus chemical or mechanical digestion?

The anus is not involved in either chemical or mechanical digestion. Its main function is to expel indigestible material out of the body in the form of feces.


What type of digestion is produced by breaking down and chewing food?

Mechanical digestion is produced by breaking down and chewing food. This process involves the physical breakdown of food into smaller pieces that can be further digested and absorbed by the body.


How are the two stages of digestion related?

The two stages of digestion, mechanical and chemical digestion, work together to break down food into smaller molecules that can be absorbed by the body. Mechanical digestion physically breaks down food into smaller pieces, while chemical digestion uses enzymes to break down food into nutrients that can be absorbed by the body. Both stages are necessary for the body to extract and use the essential nutrients from food.


What is the medical term meaning the chemical and mechanical breakdown of food in the body?

The medical term for the chemical and mechanical breakdown of food in the body is "digestion." During digestion, enzymes break down food into smaller molecules that can be absorbed and utilized by the body for energy and nutrients.


What then is the main purpose of mechanical digestion?

to break down the food that we eat, allowing the body and use the useful parts of the body to help us get our food out of our system after we eat it. it makes it small and takes the nutrients out to store

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Is the anus chemical or mechanical digestion?

The anus is not involved in either chemical or mechanical digestion. Its main function is to expel indigestible material out of the body in the form of feces.


What does mechanical digestion stand for?

Mechanical digestion stands for the break down of food by chewing. Mechanical digestion is the physical part of the digestion process of the human body.


What parts of the body are involved in digestion?

The mouth, salivary glands, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, small intestine, and large intestine are involved in digestion.


What type of digestion is produced by breaking down and chewing food?

Mechanical digestion is produced by breaking down and chewing food. This process involves the physical breakdown of food into smaller pieces that can be further digested and absorbed by the body.


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.


Where does digestion in your body began?

Digestion begins in the mouth right after ingestion. There is mechanical and chemical digestion. Your teeth breaks up the food into smaller pieces (mechanical digestion) and your saliva contains salivary amylase which digests starch into maltose (chemical digestion).


What parts of the body are responsible for mechanical digestion?

The teeth (in the mouth) - for chewing, and the muscles around the gut - for peristalsis.


What areas of the body does mechanical digestion occur?

mouth,stomach and small intestine


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


Which body parts are included in chemical digestion?

the stomach


Are digestive enzymes necessary for mechanical digestion?

No, digestive enzymes are not necessary for mechanical digestion. Mechanical digestion involves the physical breakdown of food into smaller pieces through actions like chewing and churning, while digestive enzymes are responsible for breaking down food chemically into nutrients that can be absorbed by the body during the process of chemical digestion.


The breakdown of food by both mechanical and chemical mechanisms is known as?

Digestion is the process by which food is broken down by both mechanical (chewing, churning) and chemical (enzymes, acids) mechanisms in the body to extract nutrients and energy for use by cells.