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What do you mean by digestion?


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Digestion:

  1. It is the phenomenon of transforming composite food components into basic absorbable forms.
  2. It is mediated by the digestive system, that is, by biochemical and mechanical methods.
  3. In the process, large and insoluble food molecules are dissociated into water-soluble and smaller molecules that can be further absorbed easily by the body.

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