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Chewing begins mechanical breakdown of food through mastication
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What begins mechanical breakdown of food through mastication?
The mechanical breakdown of food starts with the saliva in your mouth.
How does mechanical breakdown affect chemical breakdown?
Mechanical breakdown makes food smaller so it wasn't be so large for the chemical breakdown.
What is mechanical breakdown?
a mechanical breakdown is when you manualy breakdown something,without using any objects. for example chewing your food is a mechanical brekdown or ripping a paper. And when you are breaking it down it fells like you do not feel anything.
Physical breakdown of food?
Mechanical Digestion
How would you classify chewing food?
mechanical breakdown
How does mechanical breakdown helps chemical breakdown?
Mechanical breakdown helps chemical breakdown because when you chew, chemical breakdown is going on all at the same time. So, that is going to chemical because if you didn't have saliva (chemical breakdown) if would take real long to digest your food.
What is term for the chemical breakdown of food in the mouth?
Mastication, commonly known as chewing, is the term for the mechanical breakdown of food in the mouth.
What is the watery liquid that begins the breakdown of food?
Saliva
Two anatomic regions involved in the mechanical breakdown of food?
The process begins when you chew, that is the first physical breakdown which happens alongwith chemical breakdown with the help of the saliva. the other happens in your stomach, where the food is broken down to form a semi liquid type of substance.
What happen to the food in your mouth?
2 primary actions that I'm aware of. Mechanical breakdown and breakdown by amylase.
What is mastification?
mechanical breakdown of food and mixing food with saliva, also called mastication.
What is the watery liquid that begins the chemical breakdown of food?
Saliva
