Nutrition & You, Books A La Carte Plus Mastering Nutrition With Mydietanalysis With Pearson Etext -- Access Card Package (4th Edition)
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Chapter 3, Problem 2TF
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To examine: Whether the statement “Food enters your stomach from the trachea” is true or false.
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Our throat divides into two separate tubes: the windpipe and the gullet. What prevents food from entering the windpipe?
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The epiglottis
Why doesn't the foodenter the trachea instead ofgoing to the esophagus?
Nutrients are carried to the cells by *
food ducts
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