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What is the first stage of digestion?
Mastication
Is mastication considered mechanical?
Mastication is mechanical process of chewing with lubrication and digestion process by saliva.
What is the scientific term for digestion beings here?
mastication
When does mechanical digestion take place?
Mostly in the mouth (mastication) and the stomach.
Chewing and turning are examples of this type of digestion?
Mechanical, or more specific mastication.
What type of digestion is used to break down food particles by chewing or grinding?
The answer is mechanical digestion. In mouth, it's mastication, or 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.
The digestion process starts in the?
Mouth. Mastication and saliva begins the food break down process
What is physical digestion?
chewing and peristalsis. basically body functions that mash up food.
Mechanical digestion in the mouth what is it?
Mechanical digestion in the mouth is the process of chewing the food by the teeth with the help of saliva. The whole process taking place inside the mouth. The process is called "mastication."
Enzymatic digestion of starch takes place in the small intestine and also in the?
The digestion of starch begins in the mouth during mastication. The ptyalin enzyme (an amylase) converts the starch to sugar .
Why do animals grow teeth?
For the same reason as humans. Teeth are essential for the mastication (chewing) stage of digestion. Teeth can also be used as a defence mechanism for many animals.
