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What carbohydrate from plant foods cannot be digested by animals and passes through the digestive system?
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Cellulose is a complex carbohydrate found in plant cell walls that cannot be digested by any mammal (including humans). This is because mammals lack the enzyme which breaks the β(1,4) linkages found within cellulose.
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How is food digested absorbed and transported to the cells?
it is absorbed through the walls of the small intestine into the bloodstream.
Who carries the digested food through all parts of the body?
blood carries the digested food through all parts of the body
What type of tissue is designed to squeeze food through the digestive organs?
Muscle
How do you use the word peristalsis in a sentence?
Peristalsis is the process that moves food through your digestive system.
What three ways animals disperse seeds?
Animals disperse seeds in various ways that include seeds with barbs that get stuck in their feathers or fur and are carried to new areas. They eat the fruit with the seeds and once through the digestive tract, seeds are dropped in other areas. Another way animals disperse seeds is by burying them for later and not retrieving them so they grow into new plants.
What will happened to the components of milk when it passes through your digestive tract?
Milk is digested through a series of process when it passed throught the digestive tract. The protein casein present in milk is acted upon by pepsin, trypsin, trypsinogen. The carbohydrate lactose is broken down by lactase to give glucose and galactose.
What cannot be digested and helps move waste through the digestive system?
Fiber
How can fiber make your diet healthy?
It is not digested but goes through digestive system to clean through the body.
What is the fate of the soybean meal as it passes through the digestive system of the chicken?
it is digested and is stored as fat.
What is digested in the pancreas?
Food is not digested in the pancreas. In fact, food doesn't pass through the pancreas at all. The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes to the small intestine (duodenum).
Where does the food move to when it can't be digested?
If you eat something that you cannot digest, it will pass through your digestive system and be eliminated in the form of excrement.Food that is not digested is expelled from the bowel in the stool.
When food is completely digested molecules of food in the small intestines are absorbs and transported through what system?
Digestive System
How does the digestive system of a newt work?
The digestive system is pretty simple. The newt eats its food, it is then sent to the stomach, digested and sent through the intestine, and eventually excreted.
What happen to material that passes through the digestive system without being digested and absorbed?
It comes out the other end.
When most proteins fats and carbohydrate are digested completely they are converted to end products that?
When most proteins, fats, and carbohydrates are digested completely, they are converted to the end products that are soluble and can easily pass through cell membranes.
Materials to be digested are stored in what organ?
Digestion is a process that begins as soon as the food enters your mouth. The food is not stored anywhere; it moves continually through the digestive system, being digested. There are no pauses.
Why does food have to be digested?
Food is digested, or broken down, so that the nutrients can be extracted for use by the body as it passes through the digestive system. If food wasn't digested, you would not have the energy required to run vital chemical reactions, eventually resulting in death.
