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Ingestion

Process through which animals take in food

Omnivores

Eats plants and animals

Carnivores

Eats only meat

Herbivores

Eat only plants

Suspension feeders

Take in food particles that are suspended in the water matrix

Substrate feeders

Organism that live in or on their food source and eat it's way though

Fluid feeders

Sucks nutrient rich fluid from a living host

Bulk feeders

Organisms that take in large particles of food at a time

Mechanical phase

Breaking food down into smaller then what was ingestion

Biochemical phase

Breakdown of food by hydrolysis

Pharynx

Mouth

Esophagus

Channel

Crop

Pouch like organ where food is stored and softened

Stomach

Pouch like organ sometimes used for temporary storage

Gizzard

Main function is grinding and churning the food

Intestine

Chemical digestion and absorption

Anus

Opening through which wastes are expelled

Glycoproteins

Contain in the saliva

Teeth

Help with the tearing food off and smashing and grinding food

Gastrin

Releases when food reaches the stomach

Chyme

A mixture of food and gastric juices

Small intestine

6 meters long

Stomach can hold

About 2 liters of food and drink

Duodenum

The first 25cm of the small intestine