Find the incorrect statement among the following with respect to digestive system of frog.
Oesophagus is a long tube that opens into the stomach and continues as intestine.
The frog is carnivorous, so its alimentary canal is short. The canal runs from the mouth through the buccal cavity, pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, intestine and rectum to the cloaca.
Food is captured by the bilobed tongue, so that statement is correct. The liver secretes bile, which is stored in the gall bladder and helps digest fats, so that statement is also correct. Undigested solid waste moves into the rectum and passes out through the cloaca, which is correct as well.
The oesophagus of the frog is a short tube, not a long one. It opens into the stomach, which in turn continues as the intestine. Describing it as a long tube makes this statement the incorrect one.
Oesophagus is a long tube that opens into the stomach and continues as intestine. option is correct.
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