If you eat food while hanging upside down, do you think it will still go through the alimentary canal? Give reasons.

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Yes. Even if we eat food while hanging upside down, it will go through the alimentary canal because of the process of peristalsis. The muscles of the oesophagus will push the food downwards in a wave like action throughout the alimentary canal.

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