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If you eat the food while hanging upside-down,do you think it will still go through the alimentary canal? Give reason

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Yes it will go through your alimentary canal. The reason is due to the process of peristalsis, the muscular contractions that move food through the canal. Just take a look at astronauts, they are able to have perfectly normal movements in outer space (zero gravity)

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