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What organ produce bile to break down fats so they can be absorbed and used by the body?
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Liver produces bile. Bile contains bile salts and bile pigments. You have sodium taurocholate and sodium glychocolate as bile salts. These salts reduce the surface tension of the fat globules. Very small particles of the fat are formed. This greatly increase the surface area of the fat. this gives an opportunity to the enzyme to act on the fat granules. Fat is split into fatty acid and glycerol. These products are absorbed through the wall of the intestine.
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Which organ produces bile to break down fats so they can be absorbed and used by the body?
The liver is the organ the makes the liquid bile. It helps digest fats and lipids.
What large lobed organ that produce bile?
The liver is the largest and only bile producing organ.
Which organ uses bile to break down food?
The liver is the organ that uses bile to break down food. The liver is a very important organ to digestion.
What organ stores but does not produce bile?
The gall bladder
How would digestion be affected if bile was not produced?
Stomach acids or bile break down food eaten so that the nutrients can metabolized or absorbed by the body. No bile - maybe starvation.
What organ helps break down fat in small intestine?
The liver helps to break down fats by producing bile.
What produce liver?
The liver produces bile to break down fatty foods.
If you have no gallbladder where do the gall stones go?
It cant produce stones, because the what happens is the bile sits in the gall bladder and the bile dissolves some of the fats and allows it to be absorbed into the body.
What organ transports bile from the gallbladder?
The bile duct
What are 3 functions of the liver and what organ do they coordinate with?
The three functions of the liver are: 1) detoxifies chemicals in the body such as alcohol 2) produce substances that break down or convert fats, and glucose 3) secretes bile which is stored in the gallbladder The liver works with the gallbladder to store bile that is made from the liver.
What organ released bile into the intestines?
The Gallbladder is what produces bile
What is the bag-like organ that uses acid to break down food?
that is th gallbladder because it holds bile which is digest fluid
