Digestive System

Amylase, an enzyme found in your mouth breaks starch into simple sugars.

Amylase continues the work begun in the mouth by ptyalin and completes the process of breaking down a starch into single glucose molecules. Ptyalin breaks down a polysaccharide (starch) into a disaccharide (maltose). Amylase finishes the break-down by splitting the two glucose molecules in maltose into single glucans. It does this through the process of hydrolysis. Like ptyalin in the mouth, Amylase inserts a water molecule between the two glucans which are bonded together. This breaks the glycosidic bond between them by "capping" the free reactive ends with the H and the OH. The two glucose molecules are now separate monosaccharides.

Bits of fecal matter from the large intestine entire the appendix. After some time, the fecal matter collects, can't get out, and develops and irritating nidus. Your body develops an inflammatory response, and a purulent infection ensues. With uncheck infection, it finally bursts under pressure.

The last thing to be removed from body waste is water. This take place in the large intestine known as the colon. That water is recycled back into the body.

You have bile salts in the bile. The bile salts emulsify the fat into fine particles. The surface area of the fat get greatly increased. The fat splitting enzyme called as lipase get chance to split the fat into fatty acids and glycerol.

Gastric acid is secretion produced in the stomach. It is one of the main ditotonic solutions secreted, together with several enzymes and intrinsic factors. Chemically it is an acid solution with a pH of 1 to 2 in the stomach lumen, consisting mainly of hydrochloric acid (HCl) (around 0.5%, or 5000 parts per million), and large quantities of potassium chloride (KCl) and sodium chloride (NaCl).

Those who have impaired intestines suffer from a variety of maladies.

Since the intestines are responsible for every type of nutrient absorption, you would suffer from vitamin deficiencies, which could cause a domino effect of symptoms. You could suffer from headaches, to thyroid problems. my daughter throws up everything she eats.she is not purging.The doctor said she has no fat in her stomachand that is causing her organs to lay on top of each other,causing her intestines to close,causing her to throw up.Could this be possible?

While the gallbladder may appear to be functioning in chemical digestion because it produces a chemical, in reality this chemical functions as part of mechanical digestion. Bile produced by the gallbladder emulsifies fats. This means that it breaks the fat particles into smaller particles without changing their chemical nature.

Minor fiber digestion by bacteria goes on in the large intestine, and water is absorbed, but no major lipid/protein/carbohydrate digestion occurs. All of that goes on higher up in the system.

Once in the stomach, more chemical and mechanical digestion occurs. The crushing and breaking action of the stomachs contractions with HCl help not only break down food, but also lend a hand in converting pepsinogen to the enzyme pepsin. This enzyme in the stomach takes the roll of the chemical digester, and breaks certain peptide bonds, thereby breaking up proteins in the stomach. Partly digested food from the stomach now travels to the small intestine, through the pyloric sphincter, and is know as chyme.

copyright. all right reserved It doesn't the only kind of digestion is Chemical Digestion which is caused by your Stomach Acid. :) Mechanical digestion does occur in the stomach along with chemical digestion. The stomach squeezes the chyme and that is considered to be mechanical digestion.

Anorexia and other eating disorders can grealty affect the digestive system. Lack of food, lack of adequate nutrients, or events of bingeing and then purging can upset the digestive system. Some problems that may occur are....

*Stomach pains, upset stomach

*Heart burn

*Naseua

*Diarreha

*Gas, bloating

*Constipation

It helps taste the food, it helps move it around the mouth, and it helps the mouth swallow the food by pushing it back toward the throat.
the tongue plays the role of moving around the food in your mouth.!
it rolls the food into tiny balls
It pushes the food down your esophagus.
When the teeth chews and grind the food the tongue rolls the food into a bolus and makes it easier for the food to go down the oesophagus(food tube).
it helps to chew the food so that it can go down the esophagus
It manipulates food so that it can be masticated.
Produce saliva And make the food smoother and easier to digest.
The tongue helps to digest food by moving the food around into the shape of an oval (a ball called a "bolus") so that it is easier to swallow. It pushes the food around to different teeth and to allow the bolus to mix with saliva, and then pushes the food into the esophagus.It helps us to taste and select suitable foods (e.g. if it tastes horrible then you will spit it out so that your body does not need to digest the horrible food).

The human digestive system, also known as the gut, alimentary canal, or gastrointestinal tract, is a complex system that has a tubular structure. It has four important functions: ingestion, digestion, absorption, and elimination. It is helpful to think of it as a garden hose that has areas that are wider and other areas that are more narrow. In addition, it has places where there are gates called sphincters that hold the products, chyme, or feces, until it is time for them to move into the next chamber, or part of the hose. The end result is nutrients get broken down and absorbed into the body and any left over waste is eliminated from the body.

well digestive system is made up of tissue, ie., start from mouth to rectum. The food passes through, oesophagus,colon,stomach,etc., where the food get digested by the acids,agenst and enzymes secreted in the stomach/colon.

For the absorption of nutrients in the colon is done by villus.

Starch is a large macromolecule, so needs to be broken down into simple sugars which can be absorbed into the blood stream

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Basically able to absorb, because the water is non-polar molecules, the way it isthrough cell osmosis, and osmosis is a special case of free diffusion, free diffusionrequires two conditions, one with a semi-permeable membrane (ie cell Is a living), the second is a concentration difference (and are more common to drink pure water, osmotic pressure is very small, relatively high intracellular fluid).

So, in general, as long as your digestive system is normal, each with water over the site can absorb moisture. But more important is the digestive tract, where the water will be converted into digestion, absorption through the intestinal villus cells, and thenthrough the capillaries into the blood cells, with the blood through the body.

1 - The very low pH (1-2) of the acid in the stomach is a very harsh environment, so most bacteria are killed off. The pH acts as a defense mechanism.

2 - The enzyme protease works optimally at a low pH. This means the environment in the stomach is ideal for the break down of proteins to take place.

The stomach is an organ of digestion. It has a sac-like shape and is located between the esophagus and the intestines.

There is a major organ group called the Digestive System, comprised of many sections including the alimentary canal in which is a storage bag, so to speak, called the stomach. The stomach receives food from the esophagus, adds various enzymes, churns the contents to mix, and the resultant chyme is then squeezed, so to speak, into the small intestine. As it is a part of the body, specialized in a particular function; yes, it is an organ, particularly as it uses muscles to churn and pass the product of its work (chyme) along to the next contributor to digestion, the small intestine.

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The organ that produces and secretes enzymes that are essential for proper digestion is the pancreas. The enzymes that the pancreas produces and secretes are trypsinogen, , chymotrypsinogen, pancreatic lipase and amylase.

the villi are small finger-like creases on the small and large intestines.

they are used to increase the area for absorption.

The food is broken down into nutrients that is absorbed into the villi.

You might want to Check out ,by the way, the question with the Title 'In which part of The Digestive System does food get absorbed'

That has everything to do with Food getting absorbed and that stuff like Villi which is scientifical.