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If you refer to the physical "thing", nutrients is absorbed into the blood capillaries (other than fat molecules) and lacteals (fat molecules only) in the villi, which are lining the small intestine. The nutrients absorbed into the blood is then transported via the hepatic portal vein to the liver where the liver further distribute the blood to our body. The fat absorbed into the lacteals evntually join with the lymphatic system and finally empties into a vein near the neck.
If you refer to the mechanism, the "force" that helps the absorption of nutrients would be the concentration gradient between the blood in the blood capillaries and the chyle in the intestines. Also, cells in the small intestines actively transports nutrients (e.g. amino acids, glucose) using ATP.
Vincent Schneider
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∙ 12y agoIf you refer to the physical "thing", nutrients is absorbed into the blood capillaries (other than fat molecules) and lacteals (fat molecules only) in the villi, which are lining the small intestine. The nutrients absorbed into the blood is then transported via the hepatic portal vein to the liver where the liver further distribute the blood to our body. The fat absorbed into the lacteals evntually join with the lymphatic system and finally empties into a vein near the neck.
If you refer to the mechanism, the "force" that helps the absorption of nutrients would be the concentration gradient between the blood in the blood capillaries and the chyle in the intestines. Also, cells in the small intestines actively transports nutrients (e.g. amino acids, glucose) using ATP.
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∙ 6y agoThe cells that line the small intestines (endothelium).
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Where does most chemical digestion take place and nutrients are absorbed into the blood?
chemical digestion takes place in the small intestine large intestine,mouth and stomach. Nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine and minerals in the large intestine.
What do the large and small do for your digestive system?
The large intestine absorbs water, and the small intestine uses small finger like things called villi take the nutrients and take it through the small intestine's wall throughout your body. Both have chemical digestion and small intestion has mechanical digestion.
What does the the small intestine do in the digestive system?
The small intestine has little villi on the bottom which take all of the nutrients from the food.
Where in the digestive system is the absorption of nutrients taking place?
Mainly in the small intestine. A small amount of absoprtion of nutrients can also take place in the stomach and large intestine.
Where in the body does absorption of food take place?
The lumen is the cavity where digested food passes through and from where nutrients are absorbed, in the small intestine.
Where are the majority of the nutrients absorbed?
The body absorbs the food nutrients through the digestive tracts. The walls of the small intestine take it in then will travel on the body via the bloodstream.
When does absorption take place in the digestive system?
most of it takes place in the small intestines
What is the condition that interferes with the ability of the small intestine to take up nutrients?
Long term side effect of small pox vaccine. Renders villi in small intestine unable to breakdown and digest fats and absorb nutrients.
What part of the alimentary canal does most absorption of nutrients take place?
Small intestine
Where and how do nutrients get absorbed by the digestive system?
Absorb tin take place in the small intestine and then the waste go to the large intestine
Why do herbivore have longer small intestine than carnivores?
because the nutrients in plants take longer to absorb.
What organ does the absorption of food take place?
The oragan in which the most absorbtion of nutrients occurs is the small intestine.
