| Question |
Answer |
| What does Ingestion do?= | Simply taking food into the digestion tract, usually via mouth. |
| What does Propulsion Do?= | This moves food through the alimentary canal, mixing and moving via swallowing voluntary and involuntary. |
| What does Mechanical digestion do?= | Physically prepares food for chemical digestion by ezynmes.Processes include chewing, mixing with food by saliva by the tongue, churning food by the stomach and segmentation. |
| What does chemical digestion do?= | Food molecules are broken down into their chemical building blocks by enzymes secreted into the lumen of the alimentary canal.Begins in mouth complete in small intestines. |
| Absorption= | |
| Defaecation= | Removal of undigested food and wastes are excreted from the alimentary canal and out the anus as faeces. |
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