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Is your tongue involved in mechanical or chemical digestion?
The tongue is involved in both mechanical and chemical digestion. It helps break down food into smaller pieces through chewing (mechanical digestion) and it also helps mix food with saliva, which contains enzymes that start breaking down carbohydrates (chemical digestion).
IsYour tongue mechanical or chemical?
The tongue is primarily a chemical sensory organ responsible for detecting taste molecules in food. It contains taste buds that send signals to the brain to interpret different flavors. The mechanical functions of the tongue, such as pushing and moving food around in the mouth during chewing and swallowing, are secondary to its role in taste perception.
Why is mechanical digestion important for chemical. Digestion?
Mechanical digestion chops the food in to smaller pieces, thus exposing more of it to the enzymes of the chemical digestion.Mechanical digestion begins in the mouth by the teeth, tongue and saliva. Mechanical digestion is important for chemical digestion because when food is broken down into smaller particles by mechanical means, chemical digestion will be more efficient.
How are Chemical and mechanical the same?
Mechanical and chemical digestion are not the same.
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