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Excess water is absorbed in the large intestine of the digestive tract.
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Are choanocytes significant to a fundamental process for sponges?
The choanocytes move water through the sponge, similar to a digestive tract in higher order mammals. The choanocytes are the primary system for allowing nutrients to be absorbed by the sponge.
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.
Does digestion occur in the digestive tract?
Digestion begins in the mouth.Your teeth mechanically digest your food by chewing and amylase present in the mouth begins to break down starch into glucose. When you swallow your food it carries on into the rest of the digestive system to continue being digested
What organ or organs are affected by diarrhea?
The digestive tract has become over active and mobile. The colon doesn't have time to remove as much water as it should, so watery stools (diarrhea) are produced.
What do amoebas use to pump out excess water from their cytoplasm?
Amoebas have constrictile vacuoles that pump excess water out of their cytoplasm.
How is water transferred from the digestive tract to the kidney?
The water is absorbed by your digestive tract and transferred to your blood. From there the blood will carry the water to the kidneys.
Where is most of the water absorbed in the digestive tract?
Most water is absorbed in the Large Intestine ! x
What makes up the Digestive tract?
food goes down the esophagus into the stomach with digestive acids and the through the small intestines so food can be absorbed then to the large intestine so water can be absorbed the left overs is what your body didn't use.
Where is water absorbed in digestive?
Water is absorbed in the large intestine.
Can you drink and not hurt the digestive tract?
You can drink water
How do pain killers dissolve?
The capsule is water soluble, meaning that it dissolves in water. The substance within the capsule is treated as food. It is sent through your digestive tract, and the nutrients are absorbed by your body. The rest is in your feces.
What other organs are involved in excretion and what do they do?
There are a number of organs involved in excretion: the lower digestive tract including the colon, the kidneys, the lungs, and the sweat glands. The lower digestive tract removes or excretes indigestible items from the digestive tract. The kidneys remove urea which is a product of the breakdown of proteins. The lungs remove carbon dioxide which is also a waste product. And the sweat glands remove excess water.
Organ that removes water?
In terms of digestion, the large intestine is the water reclamation unit. They remove water from the digestive process so that the body will have water. Kidneys also remove water, which is then discharged as urine.
What process does water enter the blood?
Water that you drink, like all nutrients, enters the blood in the digestive tract. Water is different for example from proteins and fats in that it gets absorbed throughout the digestive tract and not only in a particular part such as the stomach or a part of the intestines. The major site of water readsorption from the intestines however is the large intestine (colon). Here, the removal of water and uptake into the blood contributes towards drying and concentrating the stool.
Aborbs excess water from chyme?
When all of the nutrients have been absorbed from the chyme, it enters the large intestine where the water is absorbed from it.
What component is found in the greatest quantity at the end of the digestive tract?
water
Which digestive organ absorbs excess water?
the large intestine
