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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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Where do most of the digestive products pass into the bloodstream?

Most of the foodstuff broken down by the digestive system is absorbed in the small intestine by villi, small appendage-like extensions that line the tracts of the small intestine. Blood vessels run through the villi, and their walls are made to be absorbent for broken down food.

What are 3 ways bacteria helps your digestive system?

Cleans out your intestines, decomposes some wastes, and helps get nutrients out of the wastes.

What is the pathway food travels through in the digestive system in order?

first the food passes through your esophagus then to your small intestines and then your large intestines

What is the system that stimulates the activity of the digestive tract?

Primarily the nervous system can stimulate or inhibit the digestive system, but the adrenal system, the thyroid, and the reproductive system all also affect the digestive system.

Which organelle contains enzymes that break down damaged cell parts?

Lysosomes are the organelles in charge of getting rid of cellular debris, including cell parts that are damaged. Lysosomes contain fifty different types of enzymes that can breakdown all kinds of biomolecules.

Can a person survive after eating rat poison?

Yes, one type of rat poison, sodium warfarin, also known as Coumadin, Jantoven, Marevan, Lawarin, and Waran, is routinely prescribed as a blood thinner to patients with heart disease and other illnesses.

How does food get down the esophagus?

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Does your body digest foods faster when your sleeping rather then when your awake?

Food does not digest properly when your sleeping, so there for it digests faster when your awake rather then when your asleep.

Can a shark digest clothing ie swim trunks and wetsuits?

Sharks can digest leather - but not cotton or anything rubbery or synthetic.

What is a synonym for digest?

ingest, absorb, incorporate, dissolve, assimilate, soak up

What can happen when a portion of the obstructed bowel begins to die from lack of blood flow?

fluids and bacteria that help digest food can leak out of the intestinal wall and into the abdominal cavity causing peritonitis

What are the digestive organs of fish?

the stomach to the kiney to the swim bladder

Describe the movement of food from the current siphon through the digestive system of the clam?

Water and food particles are drawn in through one siphon to the gills where tiny, hair-like cilia move the water, and the food is caught in mucus on the gills

Is plants or meats harder to digest?

Humans' storage form of energy is a six carbon sugar called glucose. Our cells can easily break glucose down into ATP, the main energy that powers our cells. Plants' storage form of energy is starch, which we can also break down, however you eat the whole plant, not just its starch, and plants also contain cellulose, a structual carbohydrate that your body cannot breakdown into ATP. While starch can be converted to glucose, it requires more energy to do so, and cellulose cannot be converted at all. So in short, your body breaks down meat more easily because it's energy is already stored in a form which your body can process most easily.

Is your appendix important?

The answer to that question is not really known, as there are several differing factions arguing over the actual purpose of this organ. Some think that humans have evolved to the point where the appendix isn't needed any more, after it had served some service during our hypothetical evolution. Others say that the appendix produces vital antibiotics and beneficial bacteria during the fetal and infant stage of the human, as experiments have shown that it is rich in lymphoid cells, which fight infection. Another theory as to it's function is that it serves as a storage dock for useful bacteria when infection flushes out the body, but there is very little evidence to support this. The bottom line is that while the appendix probably has a function, we have not studied it enough to know what it does.

In take of food is also known as?

Eating?

Ingestion?

Caloric uptake?

Chowing down?

Consuming?

How fast does food travel through the digestive system?

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