Many processes occur in the digestive system .which process is best classified as a physical change

This question lacks options, the options are:

A) Saliva converting the starch molecules in crackers into simple sugars

B) Digestive enzymes breaking down proteins into smaller fragments

C) bacteria converting lactose into simple sugars in the intestines

D) teeth grinding an almond into smaller pieces in the mouth

The answer is D

Explanation:

A physical change is a change that occurs to a substance without altering its chemical composition. A physical change involved a change in the substance's shape, texture, color, state etc. but not the chemical content of such substances.

In this question involving the processes that occur in digestion, a typical example of physical change is "teeth grinding an almond into smaller pieces in the mouth" because the teeth only changes the shape and texture of the almond. It does not affect the chemical composition of the almond fruit. This is also called mechanical digestion.

Note that, other options involving digestive enzymes breakdown are chemical changes because the enzymes breakdown the chemical components of each substance.

D

Explanation: because you are breaking down food in a physical change

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interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle