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Mechanical digestion starts when food is chewed physically by the teeth (grinding and tearing the food), and the remaining steps of digestion continue from then on.

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2 types of digestion are?

Mechanical Digestion (ex. chewing your food) and Chemical Digestion (ex. your spit breaking down the food). Those examples happen in the mouth, but both types happen elsewhere in the body, too.


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 would happen to the mechanical and chemical digestion in a person missing a large portion of his or her stomach.?

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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.


Is absorption mechanical or chemical digestion?

does absorption occur when mechanical or chemical digestion


Why must mechanical digestion start before mechanical digestion?

Mechanical digestion must come first because it helps break down food


What would happen to the mechanical and chemical digestion in a persons missing a large portion of his or her stomach?

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