Terms related to digestion of food

in science •  6 years ago 

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I am going to define the terms related to digestion of food that are 

1) Ingestion 2)Digestion 3)Absorption 4)Assimilation 5)Defecation

  • INGESTION:

The process of taking in food in living organism is called ingestion

  • DIGESTION:

The breakdown of ingested food from complex substances to smaller substances.

  • ABSORPTION:

The diffusion of smaller substances of digested food in to blood or body fluid i.e lymph

  • ASSIMILATION:

In assimilation the absorbed simpler substances of food changes to complex substances that make the body strucure.

  • DEFECATION:

Removal of undigested food from the body is called defecation.

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