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Does chyme enter the small intestine on the right or the left?
Chyme enters the small intestine from the stomach on the right side, known as the pyloric sphincter. Once in the small intestine, chyme is further broken down and nutrients are absorbed into the body.
What organ converts chyme into feces in the digestive system?
The large intestine, it absorbs all water, salt, minerals, and vitamins once it passes from the end of the small intestine (illeum) into the large intestine (colon) through the Ileocecal valve
Liquid food in the digestive tract that is partially digested?
Chyme is the term used to describe the liquid food mixture in the digestive tract that is partially digested. It is produced as a result of mechanical and enzymatic actions on food in the stomach and then passed into the small intestine for further digestion and absorption of nutrients.
How is sodium digested?
Sodium is not digested in the traditional sense like food. It is absorbed in the small intestine as an electrolyte during the digestive process. Once absorbed, sodium helps maintain the body's fluid balance and is crucial for nerve function and muscle contractions. Any excess sodium is eliminated by the kidneys through urine.
Where is maltase located in the human body?
Maltose isn't used inside the body but it can be used to sweeten many foods.Maltose is a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose. In order for the body to "use" maltose, it must be digested and absorbed in its monomeric form: GLUCOSE. When food passes through the stomach as chyme and passes into the small intestine's duodenum, this causes the small intestine to release disaccharidases (i.e. maltase), which are a group of enzymes that can digest disaccharides, such as maltose. Once maltose is broken down by maltase into two units of glucose, glucose is free to be absorbed by the gut.
When all digested food once its is soluble passes into what?
The soluble portions of food are absorbed by the small intestine into the bloodstream.
Why is diffusion necessary to be preformed for an organism to survive?
Diffusion is how gas exchange happens in the lungs, so it is useful for respiration. Food susbstances also diffuse out of the small intestine once they have been digested, so it's useful for that as well.
What happens to food when it reaches your small intestines?
In the small intestine is where the breakdown of large food molecules occur and it also absorbs all of all the nutrients from these large molecules.
What happens to the food in the stomach?
food in the stomach is digested in order to Increase its surface area of the food to be easily absorbed in the small intestines. What happens to food once it has entered the stomach is that gastric juices are secreted to help break down the food even more. In the stomach, food is mixed and broken up and is absorbed into the bloodstream.
Does the protein digestion begin in the stomach and is it completed in the small intestine?
Yes. The digestion of protein begins in the stomach with the enzyme pepsin and ends in the small intestine using enzymes secreted by the pancreas. Once the enzymes have broken the proteins into their amino acids, they can then be absorbed by the epithelial tissue lining the small intestine.
Once you drink water how is it digested and where does it go?
It is passed from the stomach into the large intestine where further digestion occurs. From there it is passed to the small intestines where final digestion occurs. From there, to the colon.
Where does digested food enter into the blood?
How does digested food get into our blood?once almost fully digested the food moves through the inestines, while the waste moves on to be excreted, the nutrients and such which are a great use to the blood cells are absorbed through the walls of the intestines. Thus into our bloodstream. And that first you need to chew and it will go to your blood stream
Where does bile's come from?
In most vertebrates, bile which is a greenish color is produced by the liver. Once produced by the liver, bile is stored in the gallbladder until the food being digested (at this point called chyme) enters the first part of the small intestine (called the duodenum), at which point the bile is passed into the small intestine as well.
Do the stomach release its contents into the small intestine all at once?
Figure it out.lol this guy above me is a dickhere :No, the stomach doesn't release its contents into the small intestine suddenly and all at once. After being in the stomach, food enters the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.
Why does someone have to take a dump?
The digestive tract has many processes in digesting food, some of which begin in the mouth. Once food has entered the mouth, an enzyme in your saliva along with your teeth, help in initially breaking the food down. Once it is broken down to a point at which it can be swallowed, it enters the stomach. Powerful acids inside the stomach break the food down much more. Once it has been digested in the stomach, it passes through to the small intestine, which is very long. The digested food will travel the small intestine until it reaches the large intestine, or colon. All along on the journey, nutrients have been "sucked" out of the food and deposited into the body. However once entering the large intestine, moisture is what will now be "sucked" out of the digested matter. That is why you can get constipated if the matter is in your large intestine too long, or you can have diarrhea if it passes through too quickly. Once the digested matter has reached the end of the large intestine, or colon, it is ready to be ejected as waste matter. Thus, causing David to take a dump. By taking the dump, his body was getting rid of the waste matter it could not use. I hope that helps explain what you wanted to know and answer any questions you had. If you have any additional questions which I did not answer, or perhaps you would like to learn more about what happens inside the intestines, as I just went over it briefly, I would suggest google-ing "The Digestive Process", or something to that degree.
Where does the liquid that leaves the stomach go?
Once it leaves the stomach, the partially digested contents (technical term - "chyme") enter the small intestine at the duodenum. As the chyme passes through the small intestine, further digestion takes place, as well as the absorption of useful nutrients.
What happens once food gets to the small intestine in sequence?
Once food reaches the small intestine, it is mixed with bile from the liver and digestive enzymes from the pancreas, which help break down fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. The process of digestion continues as nutrients are absorbed through the intestinal walls into the bloodstream. The small intestine consists of three parts: the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum, each playing a role in further digestion and nutrient absorption. Finally, any remaining undigested material moves into the large intestine for further processing.
