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What remains in the small intestines after nutrients have passed through its walls?
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Chyme (thick, semi-fluid mass of food). Chyme is undigestible material plus water. When it moves into the small intestine, the water will be mostly removed and what is left will be excreted as feces.
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What remains in the small intestines after all the nutrients have passed through?
You have undigested food material is left in the small intestine. There are mainly fibres in the food. It forms the main bulk in your faeces.
What happens to the molecules in the food you eat?
they are broken down into their component particles and absorbed into your body as energy, vitamins and nutrients. All that is left has been drained of nutrients and is passed through your intestines (continuing the leaching of nutrients, vitamins, minerals, etc.) and passed out your rectum as fecal matter.
Where does most of the absorption of nutrients occur?
small intestine
Is this True or false digested food is absorbed through the large intestine?
False. Food is digested and absorbed in the intestines. The stomach assists with breaking down chemical bonds the food is comprised of and allows for absorption and distribution of nutrients. Undigested particulate matter is passed through the intestines and is known as feces.
How do substances get into the blood from the small intestines?
they get passed through small vessals into your blood.
What is a liquid that carries oxygen nutrients and waste through the body?
Blood delivers oxygen and nutrients to the body cells, and it removes waste and takes it to the kidneys where it is filtered from the blood and passed to the bladder. From there, it is passed out of the body through urinating.
Describe how nutrients are passed between organisms and the environment?
passed between organisms and teh environment through biogeochemical cycles
How are nutrients and wastes passed between the mother and baby?
Through the umbilical cord and the placenta.
Can a tapeworm be passed through a man's sperm into his partner?
No, its a parasite that is gotten by eating uncooked meats ect. Its in your intestines not sperm
What body process breaks food into nutrients?
Once the food has reached the stomach and is worked on by enzymes to break them down into absorbable forms of proteins and carbohydrates and other nutrients the 'food' is now passed into the small intestine from where it is absorbed accross the small intestine lining through the cells into the blood and taken round the body. On its way round the body, the nutrients in the blood are absorbed into the places where they are needed. To sum this up, the body absorbs the nutrients into the blood through capillaries in the intestines.
How does feces build up?
The walls of your intestines absorb nutrients from the food. There after all waste that cannot be absorbed moves to the colon , this includes mucus, toxins and even dead body tissue. There after its passed out
What is primary absorption?
If your asking about primary absorption in digestion and the absorption of nutrients into the body, then primary absorption is the first (primary) place in the body where nutrients are absorbed. In humans this takes place in the small intestines after the food has been broken down in the stomach and passed on to the small intestine.
