The Digestive System
A breakdown of how many organisms breakdown their food.
Brief Overview
Digestion is the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food into smaller components that are more easily absorbed into a blood stream for instance. Digestion is a form of catabolism: a breakdown of large food molecules to smaller ones. Digestion can take many forms, some organisms simply secrete biotoxins and digestive chemicals into the extracellular environment prior to ingestion of food, while others direct the food to certain organs after it is already in the organism in order to digest it. Our digestive system is much more advanced than digestive systems that have gone through evolution in history, he is an example if how our digestive system works: