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What is mechanical digestion?

What is mechanical digestion? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) The breaking of food into digestible chunks, normally using the teeth.
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Instead of mechanical digestion, they use filter feeding that sifts through the water while trapping prey in bristles, a skin derivative.
Chemical digestion involves enzymes whereas mechanical digestion does not.
In order for nutrients to be absorbed, food must undergo chemical and mechanical digestion.
The seeds most likely to be dispersed are small, hard seeds, which are best able to withstand the mechanical digestion in the birds' gizzard.
When you chew your food and swallow it, it rolls down up to your stomach, and when it reaches there, it will start its remaining portion of mechanical digestion.
This step results in the mechanical digestion of the pancreas and can be performed for all tubes simultaneously if the tubes are placed into a rack for incubation and covered while shaking.

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