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Contains the enzyme used in the first step in digestion?
Saliva.
What type of digestion is produced by breaking down and chewing food?
Chemical digestion
Long convoluted tube where chemical digestion is completled?
The small intestine is a convoluted tube in which chemical digestion is completed..
Is formation of chyme by the stomach an example of mechanical digestion?
No, it is chemical digestion.
What process increases the surface area of foods prior to chemical digestion?
Mastication, or chewing, is a form of mechanical digestion that increases the surface area of foods prior to chemical digestion.
First step in chemical digestion?
Production amylase
What is the first chemical step of digestion?
The breakdown of starch into sugars in the mouth.
What is the job of the mouth on a human body?
It is the first step in the digestion system. It uses chemical digestion by using the sylivia to brake down food and uses mechanical digestion by using the teeth to do the exact same job.
What is the first step in mechanical digestion?
by chewing
What is the digestions that involves breaking down large molecules of food into nutrients?
It's called 'masticate' or 'mastication', which is the chewing process and is the first step in the digestion process.
Where does the first step of digestion ocuur?
In the mouth. Your teeth chew food, breaking down fibres, and your saliva also begins chemical break down.
Why must chemical digestion must start before chemical digestion?
Mechanical digestion must come first because it helps break down food
Is the small intestine is the last step in digestion.?
False, it is the first step in digestion. ---------------------- No - but the above is not true either, the small intestine comes after the stomach and mouth and digestion starts in the mouth.
What is the process by which the chemical energy of food molecules is released?
The first step of the process is the digestion.
The largest amount of chemical digestion occurs in your what?
Most chemical digestion takes place in the duodenum (the first part of the small intestine).
Contains the enzyme used in the first step in digestion?
Saliva.
Is it true that chewing is the first step digestion?
yes, it is in fact.
