Before your food passes from the mouth and down your esophagus, salivary amylase, an enzyme in saliva, begins to digest the starch in your bread. That is the start of chemical digestion. ... The passage of the bolus through the esophagus to the stomach occurs by peristalsis, a series of wave-like muscle contractions.
Active transport is transport that takes energy. Osmosis is when a molecule is moving inside of a cell. Active transport is just moving a molecule through the cell membrane.
