NUTRITION
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
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Question
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Food is pushed into your stomach by ____
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Muscular contractions called peristalsis
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Digestive juices
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Voluntary control
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Gravity
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Peristalsis is a series of wave-like muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract. It starts in the esophagus where strong wave-like motions of the smooth muscle move balls of swallowed food to the stomach.
Detailed explanation-2: -(payr-ih-STAL-sis) The rippling motion of muscles in the intestine or other tubular organs characterized by the alternate contraction and relaxation of the muscles that propel the contents onward.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mechanical digestion in the stomach occurs via peristaltic contractions of the smooth muscle from the fundus towards the contracted pylorus, termed propulsion.
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