How Does the Digestive Process Work?

 

Digestion involves:

  • the mixing of food.
  • the movement of food through the digestive tract.
  • a chemical breakdown of large molecules of food into smaller molecules.

Digestion begins in the mouth, where food and liquids are taken in, and is completed in the small intestine.

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