Question

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1. Why is most food digested?

A. Digestive enzymes require a variety of substrates.

B. It ensures that the diet is balanced.

C. Most ingested food molecules are large.

D. To prevent disorders of the intestine.​

Answer 1

C

Step-by-step explanation:

As food molecules are very large during intake, they cannot be absorbed by the small intestine as macromolecules. They need to broken down into smaller molecules for absorption to take place.

Answer 2

1. Why is most food digested?

C. Most ingested food molecules are large.

Food is digested to break down big particles of food into smaller ones so that the absorption process takes place more efficiently.