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n200080 [17]
4 years ago
8

What type of muscle is responsible for peristalsis?

Biology
1 answer:
Masteriza [31]4 years ago
5 0

In much of a digestive tract such as the human gastrointestinal tract, smooth muscle tissue contracts in sequence to produce a peristaltic wave, which propels a ball of food (called a bolus while in the esophagus and upper gastrointestinal tract and chyme in the stomach) along the tract.

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