AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ruminants chew their food numerous times through a process called regurgitation or rumination. That means their food travels first from their mouth to the esophagus, then down to the rumen. From the rumen, the food travels to the reticulum where it can them come back up the esophagus into the mouth.

Detailed explanation-2: -The correct order in which food passes through alimentary canal is: Mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, anus.

Detailed explanation-3: -This is known as rumination, which consists of the regurgitation of feed, rechewing, resalivation, and reswallowing.

Detailed explanation-4: -The omasum, also known as the bible, the fardel, the manyplies and the psalterium, is the third compartment of the stomach in ruminants. The omasum comes after the rumen and reticulum and before the abomasum.