Term
| What are four different ways animals obtain food |
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Definition
Suspension feeding
Substrate feeding
Fluid feeding
Bulk feeding |
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Term
| Four stages of food digestion |
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Definition
Ingestion
Digestion
Absorbtion
Elimination |
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Term
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Definition
| control the movement of food into and out of digestive chambers |
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Term
What prevents the gastric juices from digesting the walls of the
stomach? |
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Definition
| Mucus and new cell linings produced every 3 days |
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Term
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Definition
| a specialized foregut that houses symbiotic gut bacteria to break down plant material before it enters the gastric part of the digestive tract |
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Term
| What does mechanical digestion do? |
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Definition
break down food into smaller pieces.
Easier to swallow
more surface area for digestive fluids
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