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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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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.
Is bile used for chemical or mechanical digestion?
it is use for chemical digestion as it emulsifies fats.
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.
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
Where does a pomegranate go in the digestion system?
Into your stomach, then through your intestine, then out your rear
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.
What are the main uses of salt?
produce in small amounts the hydrochloric acid required for the digestion of food ,,
Do ants produce digestive gases because red ants have a distinctive smell to them?
Who would know that?
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.
What were the rocks called that dinosaurs used to help digest their food?
They are called gastroliths.
Is carbohydrase the same as amylase?
Yes, they both turn Starch/Carbohydrates into simple sugars/glucose/maltose
What is the function of the folds and projections of the mucosa withing the alimentary canal?
Folds and projections of alimentery canal increase surface area for digestion and absorption of food.
The structures that break up food into small parts and mix it with saliva for easier swallowing?
teeth
Will digesting one pound of salt kill a human?
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What is the first part of your digestive system?
the first step in the digestive system is when you chew it in your mouth
How does a monogastric digestive system work?
Humans have mongastric digestive systems, much like many animals do. They're defined by a single-chambered stomach, and begins working as soon as food enters the mouth, due to the saliva. The food is then swallowed, taken through the esophagus, into the stomach where acids and enzymes digest the food even more. The end result after this step then travels through the small intestines where fats are broken down.
What is the process of digestion in a dogfish shark?
The transformation of input ingestion in output defecation.
