Write structure and function of a gizzard of a cockroach in short
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The food enters the oesophagus and then into the crop. The masticated food is temporary stored. The food is then passed into the Gizzard which acts as a grinding chamber. The digestive enzymes secreted by the gast caecae act upon the food in stomach.
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The following are the structure and functions of the cockroach:
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- The cockroach is an omnivorous insect. It can eat a wide variety of food including small insects to vegetables. The type of nutrition in cockroach is holozoic.
- The gizzard is a kind of muscular stomach in cockroach. It consists of sharp teeth which is able to grind the food into small parts.
- It is covered with round thick wall with muscular chitins.
- It consists of six teeth in the stomach which aids in the grinding of the food. It also aids in the mastication of the food.
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