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food enters the mouthand is chewed by the teeth by the process of mastication.
name the 4 types of teeth in the mouth?

Tongue rolls the food into a ball before swallowing called a ...

The food enters the oesaphagus(a muscular tube which transports the food towards the stomach).What is the name of this muscular process?

once past the cardial sphincter(the valve which separates oesophagus from stomach) the food drops into the stomach where gastric acid and enzymes.what is the function of enzymes?

which acid is in the stomach? (It breaks down large pieces of food into smaller pieces).

which enzyme is most common in the stomach and which type of food does it break down?

the now smaller pieces of food now past through the pyloric sphincter into a small tube called what?

a special gland and an organ also secretes enzymes and a fluid into this tube.What are their names and what do they secrete?

what effect does the enzyme and the fluid do to the food?

from this tube the food enters the small intestines where the broken down food is absorbed into the blood stream through billions of tiny little finger like structures called what?

which is the main blood vessel the nutrients are absorbed into ?

From the small intestines any unabsorbed food passes into the large intestines where mostly water and some salts are reabsorbed leaving a waste product called?