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Nutrients are absorbed from the small intestine the blood (red) vessel travel through.
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What is another job of the digestive system besides breaking food down?
to make the food small enough to be absorb by your blood to make the food small enough to be absorb by your blood
What is a villi job?
Villi absorb food into the blood from inside the intestines
Why do villi help absorb things into the blood?
villi are the finger-like long projections of our small intestine. they absorb things into the blood for easy diffusion on materials i.e., to get energy from the food as the body cannot absorb them easily since food are complex. So they are broken down and diffused into the blood so that food burns in presence of oxygen to release energy.
What can absorb food and pass it into the blood vessels from the ileum?
Small Intestine.
What is the application of saliva?
saliva mixed with our food and help to digest it easily. Due to this blood can easily absorb nutrient from food.
What is a finger shaped projection in the digestive system that helps absorb food in to the blood stream?
Americ
What are the two jobs of the small intestine?
To absorb the nutrients from the food and send it to the large intestine
Where does the blood absorb oxygen in human body?
the blood absorb oxygen in the lungs(cappilaries)
What is the purpose of the large intestine?
The purpose of the large intestine is to absorb water from the undigested food back into the blood.
Do organisms in the plant kingdom make their own food?
Technically, humans and animals actually EAT their food, but when the food reaches the body, the cells absorb that food. So the answer to your question is NO.
Why does food not enter the body until it is abdorbed into the blood?
Food must be digested before it can be absorbed because it is necessary for our digestive enzymes to combine with the food. Once the enzymes combine with the food, our bodies can absorb the nutrients.
What absorbers food?
The lymph vessels or the blood vessels of the digestive absorb the digested food through the tiny projections in the small intestine called villi.
