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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.
Physical breakdown of food?
mechanical breakdown
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.
Is the mouth a chemical or mecahnical breakdown?
The mouth is involved in both chemical and mechanical breakdown of food. Mechanical breakdown occurs through chewing and mixing with saliva, while chemical breakdown is initiated by enzymes in saliva that start breaking down carbohydrates.
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 the watery liquid that begins the breakdown of food?
Saliva
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.
Two anatomic regions involved in the mechanical breakdown of food?
The mouth and the stomach are two anatomical regions involved in the mechanical breakdown of food. In the mouth, teeth mechanically break down food into smaller pieces through mastication. In the stomach, muscular contractions churn and mix food with digestive juices to further break it down into a semi-liquid state.
What happen to the food in your mouth?
2 primary actions that I'm aware of. Mechanical breakdown and breakdown by amylase.
What is mechanical degestion and where does it occur?
Mechanical digestion is the physical breakdown of food into smaller pieces through chewing and mixing by the muscular contractions in the digestive tract. It primarily occurs in the mouth through chewing and in the stomach through churning actions.
