What is the main function of the oesophagus?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. carries food from the mouth to the stomach
The oesophagus carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
Answer: carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
Why not the others: exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with the blood: that is the job of the lungs. absorbs digested food into the blood: that is the job of the small intestine. stores bile: that is the job of the gall bladder.
Answer: carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
Why not the others: exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with the blood: that is the job of the lungs. absorbs digested food into the blood: that is the job of the small intestine. stores bile: that is the job of the gall bladder.
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