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Digestive System - Coggle Diagram
Digestive System
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The Digestive Process
Mouth and Esophagus
The chewing action breaks down and tears up feed. This directly helps the swallowing process. The saliva stimulates taste and contains enzymes used for digestion. The food, once chewed, enters the esophagus and is carried to the stomach.
Ruminant Stomach
The four compartments of the ruminant stomach are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. Ruminants do not chew their food completely before they swallow it. The solid feed enters the rumen. The liquid enters the reticulum, then omasum, and finally the abomasum. When the rumen is full the feed is forced back into the mouth and chewed as cud.
Non Ruminant Stomach
When feed enters the stomach gastric juice begins to flow. The gastric juice contains additional enzymes called pepsin, rennin, and gastric lipase. The enzymes act on the feed to break it into proteins and fatty acids. The muscular walls of the stomach churn the feed into liquid.
Digestive System Parts
digesting Feed
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Stomach Ruminant: rumen, reticulum, omasum, abosmasum
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