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Joke answer: The food checks in to a waiting room where it usually reads a magazine and waits. After a few minutes, the food is called into a special chamber by a secretary in which it undergoes surgery to be easier to digest. Then The food takes a cab to the large intestine.
Serious answer: Digestion starts in the mouth. The chewing is the first step, and the amylase enzyme starts converting starches to sugars. Then the food gets churned in a bath of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. That further breaks down the food. Then it enters the duodenum where the pancreas releases enzymes and the gallbladder releases bile. Then the mixture continues into the small intestine where many capillaries deliver the nutrients into the body. What is not digested continues to the large intestine and is eventually excreted from the body.
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What cut and grind food in the digestive system?
Food is cut and mechanically broken down by the teeth in the mouth. It is then further broken down in the stomach through churning and mixing. Finally, the small intestine uses peristalsis and enzymes to continue breaking down and preparing the food for absorption.
is food broken down when respiration in plants occur?
is food broken down when respiration in plants occur?
An outer layer of gas on a terrestrial?
This is the planets atmosphere, it can then be broken down into further sections.
What process can an element be broken down?
Elements can't be broken down. They are theoretically in their simplest forms; each is represented by an atom. To break down an element means breaking down an atom --> nuclear fission.
What are the steps involved in breaking down of food?
By enzymes in your body fluds
What cut and grind food in the digestive system?
Food is cut and mechanically broken down by the teeth in the mouth. It is then further broken down in the stomach through churning and mixing. Finally, the small intestine uses peristalsis and enzymes to continue breaking down and preparing the food for absorption.
What can a molecule be broken down into?
Atoms or elements. These can be broken down further into protons, neutrons, and electrons.
Simple molecules are further broken down in cells in a process called?
Simple molecules are further broken down in cells in a process called catabolism.
is food broken down when respiration in plants occur?
is food broken down when respiration in plants occur?
What happens with the food in the stomach?
In the stomach, food is mixed with stomach acids and enzymes to break it down further. This mixture is churned and broken down into a semi-liquid mass known as chyme. The chyme is then gradually released into the small intestine for further digestion and absorption of nutrients.
Without digestive enzymes the meal is useless to the body is this statement valid?
Yes. In order for the body to use food, the food must be broken down into it's most basic elements. Complex carbohydrates are broken into simple carbohydrates, proteins are broken down into amino acids and fats are broken down into fatty acids. Some of this break down takes place because of the acids in your stomach, but enzymes in the stomach and mouth are required to further dismantle food into usable nutreints.
How is food processed through the body?
Well, food goes down your trachia and in to your stomatch were it is then broken down and sent to your small intestines and then your large intestines untill, well, you know what happens next.:)
How does food change in the mouth?
Physically is is chewed (so this is a purely physical breakdown). CHemically it reacts with the amylase in saliva and is broken down further.
Where does ingestion occur?
Ingestion primarily occurs in the mouth, where food is taken in and broken down by chewing and enzymes in saliva. From there, the food moves down the esophagus to the stomach for further digestion and absorption of nutrients.
Where food is broken down into molecules?
food isn't exactly broken into molecules. molecules are collections of atoms. those would be too small to see. but food is broken down so the nutrients can be gathered. the food is broken down in the stomach, then, the food goes through the intestines where the nutrients and water are gathered
What is food broken down by?
enzymes
What does caeca do in chicken?
The ceca contains bacteria that break down anything in the feed that the chicken itself could not break down in its stomach.
