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Digestive System

Digestive System is the category for questions regarding the breakdown and absorption of food-stuffs in our alimentary canal. Questions about the stomach and intestines can be included in this category.

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What support does the digestive system provide for cells?

Cells get a lot of energy from food. But the food you eat is not needed by cells.

How is taste related to concentration?

Taste is related to concentration in the sense that the more concentrated something is, the stronger it will taste and the more intense the flavor will be basically.

These muscles can move food in your stomach?

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Why is that enzymes that digests starch will not act upon the sugar sucrose?

Starch is composed of many molecules of saccharides linked together.

The enzymes that separate those basic elements from each other (alpha-amylase and beta-amylase) cannot alter them anymore.

These enzymes work only on the bonds between the glucose, fructose and sucrose elements of a chain, not on the elements themselves.

What does HCI in the digestive system means?

If it's present in the proper amount, it means "all is well". A mild hydrochloric acid solution in our stomachs is what digests our food. That's normal. When the stomach produces too much of the acid, that can be a problem, but there are effective medications for that.

Does Plasma carries food from the digestive system to your body cells?

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Disadvantages of faeces?

It has to be dealt with in manner that will not cause harm to other animals or persons. Human waste generically is passed through sewage and then removed and the water cleaned.

What is an amphopeptone?

An amphopeptone is a product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

How long does it take the body to digest food?

From eating to excretion, it takes about fifty-three hours to digest food. The first six to eight hours passing through the stomach into the small intestine, and an average of forty hours digesting in the large intestine.

Is bile used for chemical or mechanical digestion?

it is use for chemical digestion as it emulsifies fats.

How long would it take to digest 400 pounds of meat?

The same amount of time it would take for the Hyperbole and a Half book to be released, most likely.

How do the digestive and skeletal system work together?

The digestive system provides essential calcium requirements and other nutrients the skeletal system needs.

The skeletal and digestive system are connected because they skeletal system makes the blood and if the skeleton can't make the bone the nutrients can't go to every part of our body.

Can you poop food?

poop is the food the body can't digest. therefore yes you can poop food.........poop is food and it can digest into the digestive system and turns it into poop.

Which acid helps human stomach in digestion of food?

The acid is so strong, it pretty much melts the food down.

What is the difference between assimilation and absorption?

Absorption is where nutrients are moved from the lumen in to the bloodstream or the lymph. here they are transported to tissues where they are assimilated :used for energy, growth etc

What are the main uses of salt?

produce in small amounts the hydrochloric acid required for the digestion of food ,,

How does the digestive system digest food?

  • First as food enters your mouth, physical breakdown happens. Your teeth increase the surface area of your food. Then food goes down the esophagus with the involuntary force of peristalsis. Then comes the Big 4! The stomach stores, mixes, digests, and controls the passage of food. After the Big 4 comes the (not really) small intestine!! The small intestine is the major site of digestion and absorption of food.

Where does a pomegranate go in the digestion system?

Into your stomach, then through your intestine, then out your rear

What do you use the small intestines for?

The small intestine (also known as the small bowel) completes the digestion of fats, proteins and carbohydrates contained in the foods you consume. So this means that it basiccally purifies the energy from your food that other organs have broken down into smaller parts.

The resulting nutrients produced are absorbed through the lining of the small intestine and transferred to the bloodstream.

To make it short the small intestine brakes down your food into energy.

Is carbohydrase the same as amylase?

Yes, they both turn Starch/Carbohydrates into simple sugars/glucose/maltose