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What is the process by which your body produces and uses energy from food?
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∙ 14y ago
Step 1: Chewing
Chewing triggers the release of saliva from the saliva glands.
Saliva begins breaking down food components into starches, (sugars), which the body uses for energy.
Step 2: Down the esophagus to the stomach
The esophagus squeezes the food into the stomach, where it is rocked back in forth in bile which is created by the liver. There is also another thing that helps break it down and that is enzymes that is created from the pancreas. Which further breaks it down into starches, fats, and it's base chemicals that the body can easily absorb.
Step 3: The small intestine
The small intestine is basically the body's nutrient sponge. The small intestine contains enzymes that split food even further and absorbs it into the walls of the intestines, absorbing nutrients and rejecting unwanted substances. The nutrients are spread throughout the body's regulatory systems ( mainly Circulatory). The material that is unwanted passes through untouched by enzymes, and arrives in the large intestine.
Step 4: Eviction
The large intestine contains all the unwanted chemicals (faeces) of the small intestine's job, preparing them for evacuation from the body. (defecation)
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∙ 14y agometabolism is the process by which your body produces and uses energy from food
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What is food used as in your body?
food gives out nutrients which inturn produces energy. food is a supplement to the body's energy
Name the energy transformation that occurs when your body produces heat?
It would be chemical energy, from food you would consume, to thermal energy that your body produces.
What are the produces on a food a food web how do produces obtain energy?
energy
Is the energy in food released rapidly into our bodies?
No, the body has to process the food before the energy can be accessed.
Which process in the body transforms energy in food into heat?
you tell me
How is the energy in food released in to the body?
cellular respiration.
How does your body release the energy that is stored in food?
through the process of exocytosis
What i the process when food and oxygen combine in mitochondria?
It is called respiration.It fulfill energy requirement of cell
At what point during the digestive process does your body begin to receive energy from the food?
When the food goes to your stomach and the food releases nutrients to the body
What produces energy?
the thing that produces energy is nutrients
What is the pocess of digestion?
Nutrients and energy from the food are absorbed into your body.
What happens in the chloroplast of a cell?
It is the site of protein synthesis.It converts light energy into chemical energy.
