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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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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoIt increases the surface area on which digestive enzymes can act.
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What type of digestion is produced by breaking down and chewing food?
Chemical digestion
What is the first part of mechanical digestion called?
Chewing is the first process in mechanical digestion.
Is the anus chemical or mechanical digestion?
Mechanical
Most mechanical digestion takes place where?
In the Mouth then the second is the Stomach
Is formation of chyme by the stomach an example of mechanical digestion?
No, it is chemical digestion.
Main purpose of mechanical digestion?
Increase available surface area of food, to increase more sites for enzyme activity and hence quicker digestion
What are used as a main structure in mechanical digestion?
Teeth
What are the 2 main kinds of digestion?
Mechanical and Chemical.
Vertebrates often have mechanical and chemical ways of digesting food what is a main part of mechanical digestion?
Teeth
What type of digestion is produced by breaking down and chewing food?
Chemical digestion
Breaking down of food by churning in the stomach is an example of digestion?
The breaking down of food for the purpose of nutrition is called, "Digestion".
What are the types of digestion?
Chemical digestion and mechanical digestion
Is a large intestine a mechanical digestion?
Chewing is mechanical digestion.
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 type of change that occurs in mechanical digestion?
By definition mechanical digestion is a physical part of digestion.
Where is the mechanical digestion competed?
Mechanical digestion in humans is completed in the stomach.
Is mouth mechanical or chemical digestion?
Saliva begins the chemical digestion of starch. It also is important for the success of mechanical digestion of the mouth, but does not, in its own, perform mechanical digestion.
