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In Cockroach grinding of food particles is performed by________.


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Gizzard:

  1. Cockroaches lack teeth, but they have a muscular organ known as a gizzard behind the crop that breaks and grinds food particles so they can digest them correctly.
  2. It's also known as proventriculus.
  3. The gizzard contains chitinous plates, which are tooth-like hard structures that aid in the grinding and crushing of food particles.
  4. The ingested food particles are stored in the crop before being carried to the gizzard, where they are broken down into extremely small bits before being transferred to the following segments of the alimentary canal to be digested by enzymatic processes.

Final answer: In Cockroaches grinding of food particles is performed by Gizzard.


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