The digestive system is the system of organs that help you digest foods and extract nutrients that your body uses
Answer:
Law of independent assortment
Explanation:
According to Gregor Mendel who he performed a performed a cross involving two different genes i.e. a dihybrid cross, he stated that the allele of one gene will get sorted into gametes independently of the alleles of the other gene. He called this the LAW OF INDEPENDENT ASSORTMENT.
He obtained a 9:3:3:1 ratio when he performed this cross, which was only expected if each gametes contained the two genes in a combined state i.e. the dominant allele for one gene is equally likely to contain a dominant or recessive allele for the other gene in a gamete.
In this case, it appears the black hair and blue eyes are dominant alleles respectively while the tabby hair and orange eyes are recessive alleles respectively. If these alleles assort independently and combine in different ways, it will give rise to diverse genotypes and phenotypes in the kitten as illustated in the different phenotypic expression of eye color and hair color in the kitten.
There are lots of location that mechanical digestion occurs. But 2 common locations of mechanical breakdown of food (or physical digestion) occur in the mouth and in the duodenum.
Mechanical breakdown of food does not require enzymes, which is different from chemical digestion. Usually, the main function of mechanical digestion is to help speed up the chemical digestion later, usually by increasing the surface area of the food.
In the mouth, we chew the food. This can help increase the amount of surface area of the food we ate so that later on, the chemical digestion that requires enzymes such as amylase or protease will speed up. More enzymes can contact the food.
In duodenum, bile that are produced from the liver helps emulsify fats and lipids into small oil droplets. Again, this action can also help increase the surface area of the lipids so that the digestion of lipids with enzyme lipase would be more efficient. Note that bile is important because only enzyme lipase can digest lipids in the duodenum, so if bile is not produced, fats are hardly digested.
Other types of mechanical digestion may include the churning in stomach, or the squeezing of food in the oesophagus (peristalsis).
