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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 are the glycine and glucose absorbed in intestine?
Glycine and glucose are both absorbed in the intestine through the intestinal walls. Glycine is a type of organic compound which has no color and is sweet in flavor. Glucose is a monosaccharide is is sweet. Both glucose and glycine are absorbed during the process of digestion.
Why does increase in pH help in digestion?
By increase I believe you mean the pH gets more acidic. The stomach is full of acid that is very low on the pH scale, and the lower in the pH scale, the more acidic Hydrogen bonds become.
So, basically the more acidic the pH in the stomach, the better the food can be broken down (decomposed).
What would happen if you changed the order of your digestive system?
you would need to put food up your asss
What is the protective layer called that protects the stomach from its own acidic gastric juices?
Mucus
One possible explanation could lie in the anatomy of the stomach and in the digestive mechanism. When lying on the left, the food has room to expand because the curvature of the stomach is enhanced in that position
Which intestine do proteins carbohydrates and fat chemically digest?
neither
Proteins, carbohydrates and fats are all digested in the small intestine. The liver, gallbladder, and pancreas secrete chemicals into the small intestine to digest these nutrients. The large intestine absorbs water from the food, leaving behind waste products.
Where does food go after it leaves the stomach?
Food that leaves the stomach is called chyme. The chyme passes through a short passage called a duodenum. The duodenum releases enzymes which help digest the chyme before it passes into the small intestine. The small intestine absorbs the nutrients into the blood stream, and then passes digested chyme into the large intestine. The large intestine re-absorbs the water that was mixed into the chyme in the stomach, duodenum, and small intestine. The large intesting then compacts the undigested material into the stool, which passes into the descending colon.
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When sufficient stool collects in the colon, it passes into the rectum. When stool collects the rectum, you develop an urge to defecate, which is the expulsion of the stool from rectum out the anus.
Why does rice taste so sweet after chewing?
The process of digestion begins in the mouth. As you chew, you release saliva into your mouth. Your saliva begins to convert starches into sugars before the food even gets to your stomach, so the starch in the rice begins to taste sweeter as you chew it. This is also quite apparent if you chew a salty soda cracker for a very long time, the flavor turns sweeter the longer you chew to mix in your saliva and cause the conversion.
Why should you avoid eating junkfood?
because is has to much calories that your pancreas cant handle. if your pancreas get to much junk food then your body will to make you start having less food and movements.to cure you have to drink alot of water every one hour.
adults can get pinworms the same way kids can. if an adult (or kid) breathes in a microscopic pinworm egg, it will travel down into the digestive system and will hatch into a larvae. The larvae will travel into the small intestine. when matured into an adult, the pinworm with travel to and through the large intestine. While sleeping, pinworms travel out through your butt and will lay eggs. This will cause the anal area to become itchy and irritated.
Would the blood vessels carry digestive juices to the digestive system?
Blood vessels do not carry digestive juices to the digestive system. Digestive juices are either secreted directly into the lumen of the digestive tract, or are carried by ducts, as with bile and pancreatic juice.
Is hydrolysis the same as digestion?
Hydrolysis is one chemical process that accomplishes chemical digestion. There are other chemical and mechanical digestive processes.
Why does the enzyme pepsin (present in the stomach) denature in the intestine?
Once out of the stomach the Ph of the contents is raised by the Bile to a copable Ph level for the intestinal region. As Pepsin Denatures at pH5 (or more like pH6.8)
What is the function of cells in the small intestine?
to keep you eating healthy because that is what makes you hungry if there were no cells do you know what would happen we would all be dead yes dead
Where would the cardiovascular digestive and urinary systems be found?
We can't answer this question if we don't know the organism you're inquiring about.
What effects do enzymes have on food molecules?
They break down food molecules which make it easier for the body to digest the food.
Do dogs have special acids that break down bones in the digestive system?
They break down in the acids.
Vertebrates digest food in digestive tracts. cnidarians accomplish the same function using?
Cnidarians accomplish digestion using a gastrovascular cavity, which serves both digestive and circulatory functions. Food is taken in through a single opening, where it is digested extracellularly, and the nutrients are then absorbed by the surrounding cells. This simple body plan allows cnidarians, such as jellyfish and sea anemones, to efficiently process their food without a complex digestive system.
