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the process is peristalsis
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What propels foods through the digestive tract?
peristalsis plays a large role in moving food through the digestive tract
Excess water is absorbed in which part of the digestive tract?
Excess water is absorbed in the large intestine of the digestive tract.
What makes up the fiber that absorbs toxins as it moves through the intestinal tract of an animal's digestive system?
Cellulose
The pancreas is an organ connected to the digestive tract of humans by a duct through which digestive enzymes flow?
The pancreas is part of the digestive system and is classified as an accessory organ of digestion
What are some examples of the digestive muscle?
The digestive system comprises of organs that work together in order to ensure that food is properly processed through the body. Examples of such organs include the stomach and the intestines.
What propels foods through the digestive tract?
peristalsis plays a large role in moving food through the digestive tract
What is the process that moves food through the digestive tract?
PeristalsisPeristalsis
What is the definition of absorption in the digestive tract?
The definition of absorption in the digestive tract is is the process by which nutrient molecules pass through the wall of your digestive system onto your blood
What is the name of the wave like constraction that propel food along the gut?
Peristalsis is the process by which smooth muscle moves a mass of food (called the food bolus) through the digestive system. There is circular smooth muscle and longitudinal smooth muscle in the digestive tract. Contraction of circluar smooth muscle keeps the food bolus from moving "backward" along the digestive tract by decreasing the diameter of the tract behind the bolus. Contraction of the longitudinal muscle in the digestive tract propels the food bolus "forward" in the digestive tract.
What is the digestive tract process?
By digesting the worm
What are the nutrients that moves through the digestive tract?
Fiber is the nutrient that helps move food through the digestive tract. It provides bulk, which activates the stretch receptors in the muscles of the digestive tract, stimulating them to activity.
What is the term that describes the process in which nutrients pass through the walls of the gastrointestinal tract?
The answers given here are wrong.The correct answer is assimilation.
What is the overall function of the digestive tract?
The digestive tract basically breaks down the macromolecules into monomers to be absorbed into the body. Various enzymes are involved in the process of digestion. Digestive tract in humans starts from the mouth and ends at anus.
In earthworms how is food passed through the digestive tract?
The food is passed through the digestive tract when the worm moves. The movement causes the muscles to contract and move the food through the system.
The movement of food through the digestive tract is regulated by?
The movement of food through the digestive tract is regulated by muscles. Muscles produce a narrowing which pushes the food through each of the digestive organs until it reaches the entrance of the stomach.
What will happened to the components of milk when it passes through your digestive tract?
Milk is digested through a series of process when it passed throught the digestive tract. The protein casein present in milk is acted upon by pepsin, trypsin, trypsinogen. The carbohydrate lactose is broken down by lactase to give glucose and galactose.
What is the opening through the wastes that leaves the digestive tract?
The Anus
