Question

What is digestion? Starting from the mouth, state the various steps involved in
digestion.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The mouth is the beginning of the digestive tract. In fact, digestion starts here as soon as you take the first bite of a meal. Chewing breaks the food into pieces that are more easily digested, while saliva mixes with food to begin the process of breaking it down into a form your body can absorb and use.

Answer 2

Answer:

Digestion is a process through which the food particles get breakdown into smaller pieces and take all useful nutrients from it for our body and waste get outside of the body through egestion process.

The various steps involved in digestion are:-

1. Ingestion

2. Digestion

3. Absorption

4. Assimilation

5. Egestion.