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Describe the process of digestion. no spam ​

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Let's start with, What Is Digestion?

- Digestion is the complex process of turning the food you eat into nutrients, which the body uses for energy, growth and cell repair needed to survive. The digestion process also involves creating waste to be eliminated.

Step-by-step explanation:

There are actually six activities involved within the digestion process. They are called and know as ingestion, motility, mechanical digestion, chemical digestion, absorption, and defecation.

Now to get deeper into what each activity does within the system would take a long time to explain. The main thing you need to know about digestion is that it ingests [meaning it takes things in] and digests [breaks down what you gave in] food, absorbs released nutrients, and excretes food components that are indigestible.

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