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| the process by which the body changes food into substances it can use |
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| These work together to wet, break down, and push around the food. |
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| This organ is a long tube that pushes the food down to the stomach |
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| This organ mixes digestive juices with the food to make a porridge (oatmeal-like)substance |
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| This organ produces the digestive juices, bile, which help digest food. It also makes disease fighters called antibodies, and it cleans the blood. |
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| This organ absorbs the food into the bloodstream where it is taken throughout the body and turned into energy. |
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| This organ absorbs the water and removes the waste from the body. |
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