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Your tongue, mucous tissue, saliva, teeth, and esophageal peristalsis are just a few of the parts and functions involved in helping us with swallowing. Swallowing itself is involuntary when food gets so far into your throat, so chew well first so you don't choke.
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∙ 15y agoSpit provides salivary amylase.
In the stomach, grinding and high acidity helps break down large particles. The enzyme Pepsinogen cleaves proteins into peptides. The enzyme lipase starts the process of breaking down fats.
In the Duodenum (first portion of the small intestine), enzymes from the pancreas are introduced to the mix. The ones cleaving proteins include Carboxypeptidase A, Carboxypeptidase B, Elastase, Trypsin, Chymotrypsin. Amylase, maltase, isomaltase, and lactase cleave carbohydrates. Lipase chops up fats here too.
Bile secreted by the liver and stored in the gall bladder allows for the emulsification of fats allowing for digestion and absorption.
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∙ 9y agoTaste buds on your tongue and the back of your throat.
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∙ 9y agoSaliva makes swallowing food easier. The fact that digestion begins in the mouth by the teeth, tongue and saliva makes food smaller and softer, thereby making it easier to swallow.
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∙ 12y agoYour taste buds taste it and your tongue helps swallow it. Your tongue also moves the food around in your mouth, by the way.
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∙ 10y agolarge intestine
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∙ 9y agoyour mouth helps you
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What are the functions of the teeth?
The function of the teeth is the mechanical breakdown of food. i.e. to chew and bite your food breaking it into smaller pieces to allow for it to mix with saliva. The smaller pieces also allow for the chemical breakdown of food by various enzymes to occur faster.
How are plants helpful to humans and other living things?
it helps human breath the oxygen they get and helps other living such as herbivores to eat and a help them live
What is the small flap in the back of the throat called?
It is called the Palatine uvula, and helps us articulate our vocal sounds into human speech. It also helps break down your food.
Why is digestion of large food molecules esssential?
Because most of our food sources are composed of foods that have large molecules, it is the job of the digestive system to break down these large particles into molecules that are small enough to diffuse through our cell membranes.
How does life help life?
science helps in your life because it helps us know the importance of the things around us and it helps us understand ourselves better by knowing the parts of our body and the different living and non-living things around us through the ecosystem. knowing biology, physics, etymology, neurology, cardiology.
What muscles and joints are used during chewing food?
it helps us chew food and speak
What helps us chew and speak?
your mouth helps you
What enables us to chew and to speak?
The lower jaw enables us to chew and to speak
What organ allows you to speak?
The jaws of course! It not only allows us to talk, it also allows us to chew on our food!
What do dolphins us their teeth for do they chew their food?
they use their teeth to grab their food and they don't chew their food
How is the lower jaw helpful to us?
It is the only movable jaw in our whole body. It is also known as the lower mandible. It helps us to talk, chew food, etc.
How does the digestion of food helps us?
The digestion of food helps us to make energy so that we can do things.
What does food helps to give us?
Food gives us energy.
Why do we need to chew our food when eating?
You should chew food properly in order to absorb more energy and nutrients from the food, maintain a healthy weight, to expose the food more to saliva, for easy digestion, it keeps the bones on the teeth strong and helps us enjoy the taste of the food. For easy digestion
What part of the respiratory system helps us speak?
mouth
How are Mandible Useful to us?
The mandible is the lower jaw. The one that moves up and down when you open and close your mouth or chew. It is useful because it supports the lower teeth and lets us chew food.
What does chewing gum do?
So most people just chew gum for fun or because they like the flavors or something but chewing gum isn't all that good for you. So since you chew gum your stomach thinks there food coming but when it sees there is no food coming and your just chewing gum if will start eating away on acids in your stomach so it is ok to chew gum but not like every day!
