Home
Class 11
BIOLOGY
Where does digestion take place in cockr...

Where does digestion take place in cockroach?

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

In digestive system of cockroach the crop is followed by the gizzard or proventriculus which has an outer layer of thick circular muscles and thick inner cuticle forming six highly chitinous plates called "teeth". Gizzard helps the cockroach in the grinding of the food particles.
Promotional Banner

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

How respiration takes place in cockroach?

Meiosis takes place in

Where is protein digestion takes place?

How does locomotion take place in leech?

In leech, the digestive takes place in stomach by the action of …………

When and where does reduction division take place in the life cycle of a liverwort, a moss, a fern, a gymnosperm and an angiosperm?

Which helps in digestion in cockroach?

Fertilisation takes place in ____