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What are fingerlike projections that absorb nutrients called?
Fingerlike projections that absorb nutrients in the small intestine are called villi. Villi increase the surface area of the intestinal lining, allowing for better absorption of nutrients into the bloodstream.
What are structures in the small intestine?
the tiny structures within the small intestine that absorb nutrients are called Villi
What are the small structures in the?
the tiny structures within the small intestine that absorb nutrients are called Villi
What do you call the hairlike structures that absorb nutrients located in the small intestine?
Villi.
What fingerlike projections lining the small intestine that absorb food into the bloodstream?
Villi
What part of the body absorbs nutrients?
The system in the body that absorbs nutrients is the digestive system. Within the digestive system is the small intestine. When food passes through the small intestine, villi, absorb all of the nutrients the body needs from the food. Villi are small fingerlike projections in the small intestine that increase surface area and "reach" out to the food and absorb its nutrients. So, to answer your question, villi that are in the small intestine within the digestive system absorb what nutrients our body needs.
What helps the small intestine?
small intestine helps absorb nutrients
What happens to the nutrients before they leave the small intestine?
The nutrients absorb
How is the small intestine adapted to absorb the nutrients?
it is adapted to absorbing nutrients due to the villi present in the small intestine.
What is the role of the villi in the small intestine.?
The role of the villi in the small intestine is to absorb nutrients.
Where does most of the water absorption during digestion take place?
The intestines, because what isn't absorbed comes out as a bowel movement.the small intestine has small finger like structures called villi which absorb the nutrients.the fingerlike structures help in increasing the surface area
What does the small intestine do to the food a frog eats?
Absorb nutrients.
