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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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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 key chemical does the mouth and stomach contain?

The mouth contains amylase in saliva, and the stomach contains hydrochloric acid.

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.

How does a birds skeletal system respiratory system and circulatory system all work together to enable it to fly?

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.

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 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

What carbohydrate that cannot be digested by human digestive enzymes?

Celulose. Some humans also cannot digest lactose aka someone who is lactose intolerant.

How does the FasTrak system work?

The FasTrak system enables a smoother flow of traffic by offering a mounted tag for the windshield of a car that gets scanned by an antennae when passing through a toll booth. The information scanned gets added to the tag holders FasTrak account so there is no stopping to pay money.

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.

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.

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.