ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY
DIGESTION IN HUMANS
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Question
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When you put food in the mouth
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After the food enters the stomach
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After the food enters the large intestine
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After food enters the small intestine
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Detailed explanation-1: -The digestive process starts in your mouth when you chew. Your salivary glands make saliva, a digestive juice, which moistens food so it moves more easily through your esophagus into your stomach. Saliva also has an enzyme that begins to break down starches in your food. Esophagus.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ingestion. The first activity of the digestive system is to take in food through the mouth. This process, called ingestion, has to take place before anything else can happen.
Detailed explanation-3: -It only takes a few seconds for food to travel down the whole esophagus and into the stomach. Stomach: Your stomach squeezes food and mixes it with acid and enzymes to break it down. Food can spend anywhere from 2 to 5 hours in the stomach. After food leaves the stomach, it becomes a mixture called “chyme.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Figure 2: The digestive processes are ingestion, propulsion, mechanical digestion, chemical digestion, absorption, and defecation.