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What is the end result of nutrients being broken down In digestion?
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What is the term that describes foods being broken down into component molecules?
Digestion
Which is digested before being absorbed?
All food is broken down before digestion.
What is Chemical Breakdown?
Chemical Breakdown is the digestion of food being broken down by bones and physically.
What happens to food when you eat?
The food gets digested. Digestion is the process of food being broken down in your body, and turned into energy your body can use.
What two processes that result in rocks being broken down into smaller pieces?
chemical and physical weathering
When do the nutrients in food get sucked out of the food?
The small bowel absorbs nutrients from food but first it must be broken down into amino acids ie: proteins, carbohydrates, fibre etc... before being transported round the body.
What factors can contribute to incomplete digestion?
Achlorydia or hypochlorydia, where there is not enough stomach acid production to break food down. Food can therefore leave the stomach without being properly broken down and enter the intestinal tract as undigested food, contributing to incomplete digestion.
Why is the small intestines the main part of the digestive system?
The small intestines are important in the digestive system. There are small finger like structures in the Small intestines called villi, these villi extract the nutrients and take it into the blood stream. Without the small intestines you would not be able to extract nutrients from the food.
What is the physical and chemical change nutrients undergo after absorption?
Cellular Respiration.
Which nutrients can be absorbed without first being digested in the human gastrointestinal tract?
The nutrients that do not need to be digested they have to be smaller than the cells of the small intestine. Some of these are sugars and amino acids.
What is the result of amino acids being broken down and used for energy inside the body?
Weakness in muscles and sometimes brain defunction.
What is Chlorella Broken Cell Wall?
Chlorella would just pass thru our bodies without the cell wall being broken because it has an undigestable cellulose outer shell on each cell. So upon breaking the cell wall it unleashes the inner nutrients.
