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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 are the simplest animals to possess a complete digestive system?
Phylum Numertea....like ribbon worms
What key chemical does the mouth and stomach contain?
The mouth contains amylase in saliva, and the stomach contains hydrochloric acid.
Why does bread taste sweet after sitting 5 minutes in your mouth?
Because your saliva contains enzymes that begin to break down complex carbohydrates into simple sugars.
What triggers your appendix to burst?
Usually untreated infection. If the appendix gets infected, it swells and causes the patient some pain. Left untreated, it can burst - releasing toxins into the abdomen, which can result in septicaemia.
they all work together and help the bird fly because a birds lungs connect to the air sacs that provide a constant supply of oxygen to the blood and make the bird more lightweight.
What is the breakdown of large food molecules into smaller molecules colled?
Physical digestion is the term for breaking down large food molecules into small molecules. Mechanical digestion and physical digestion mean the same thing.
What is the two organs where digestion take place?
two organs where digestion occur are stomach and small intestine
Is cat hair dangerous if digested by humans?
Human hair cannot be digested by humans, so I would hypothesize that we could not digest cat hair either.
What is a mechanical digestion?
Mechanical digestion is a kind of digestion that takes place when food is chewed, mixed, or churned anywhere in your digestive track. two places it takes place are in the stomach and the mouth.
During digestion the pH in the stomach is 2 What does this indicate about the optimum pH of pepsin?
Pepsin is therefore acidic since the pH in the stomach is 2
What is the organism inside a termite's stomach that breaks down the wood?
There are tiny organisms inside a termite, protozoa, that eat it. The product of that is edible by both the protozoa and the termite.
What carbohydrate that cannot be digested by human digestive enzymes?
Celulose. Some humans also cannot digest lactose aka someone who is lactose intolerant.
What Type Of Muscles Aids In The Digestion Of Food?
Smooth muscles are found in the intestines and stomach. If these were skeletal muscles, instead of smooth, you would have to physically think about digesting your food to control digestion, and no food would get digested while you were busy or sleeping!
it is the smooth muscles only.
Smooth muscle
Does appetite decrease as a result of lactic acid production in the body?
No, it does not. Lactic acid is a temporary respiration mechanism where the body is burning glucose without oxygen. It has no affect on the number of calories are being used in the process, or at least not enough to trigger the hypothalamus into increasing the feelings of hunger.
How are the mucosa and sub-mucosa of the small intestine adapted for both digestion and absorption?
large surface area
What kind of chemicals are included in indigestion remedies and why are they used?
i have no idea what so ever its what i want to know
Why is stomach acid neutralised by pancreatic juice and bile in the small intestine?
As food passes through the digestive system, the digestive processes attack different types of food - carbohydrates, fats and proteins. The breakdown of proteins requires an acid environment (in the stomach region) while the breakdown of fats and carbohydrates needs an alkaline environment. Thus the Ph of the gut is changed when food leaves the stomach.
What nutrient is mechanically digested by bile?
Liver produces bile and it is stored in gall bladder....
Bile breaks down fat.
If you some how dont have gall bladder or your liver cant produce bile
you can not eat fat....or oil and any meat product even egg.
