Mixing movements

a. promote digestion by mixing food with digestive juices.
b. facilitate absorption by exposing luminal contents to absorptive surfaces.
c. take place only in the stomach.
d. promote digestion by mixing food with digestive juices and facilitates absorption by exposing luminal contents to absorptive surfaces.
e. all of these answers.


D

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