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What best describes the function of the digestive system?
To break down food into nutrients.
Break down essential nutrients and return them to the soil?
Bacteria typically break down essential nutrients and return them to the soil. Sometimes fungi will break down essential nutrients and return them to the soil as well.
Where does digestion begin where does it end?
It begins with the gastric acids in your saliva in your mouth where the food starts to break down, continues to your stomach where it is broken down further, down to your small intestine where nutrients are absorbed, and into your colon where what remains is converted into waste product and excreted from the rectum.
What nutrients do carbohydrase break down?
carbohydrates :)
Tiny plants and animals that break down dead materials into nutrients?
Tiny plants and animals that break down dead materials into nutrients are call DECOMPOSERS
What breaks down nutrients in a cell?
no cells do not break down nutrients. digestive enzymes do and depending on where or what in the body you want to break down depends on what kind. for example in the mouth there is amylase enzyme which breaks down starch or pepsin in the stomach which breaks down protein. trypsin and erepsin also break down protein but in the small intestine. hope this is ok
What break down nutrients and foreign material?
Lysosome
What happens to your food?
when you eat it? your teeth and saliva break down your food in your mouth. then you swallow. the food enters your stomach and food with nutrients are sent throughout your body. Stomach acid breaks what it can and the rest exits through your rectum.
Decomposers break down dead organisms and produce?
Decomposers break down dead organisms which produce carbon dioxide and nutrients. These nutrients are then used by other organisms such as plants.
How do nutrients get into soil?
Decomposers break down dead plants and animals. They return the nutrients to the soil.
What helps break down nutrients?
An organelle called lysosome.
What is fermentation in penicillin G production?
its when nutrients break down
