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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 organ is needed to digest starches and protein?
Your mouth begins digesting starch. Saliva contains enzymes that help digest starch. Then when food enters your small intestine, other enzymes help digest starch. In your large intestine, bacteria help you digest starch.
Is Molding food a chemical or physical change and why?
its a physical joking its a chemical change a physical is one substances, and a chemical change is two or more substances so the answer is to food molding a chemical change
What is the role of the small intestines in digestion?
it is to finnish digesting the food and get it ready for the large intestine to get extracted
How are the hard and soft palate indirectly used in digestion?
As the top of your tongue presses up against the hard palate , the roof of your mouth, food is shoved to the back of the mouth. This action in turn brings the soft palate and ursula (the place at the very back of the mouth where there is a teardrop shape located) into action. They keep the food from being misguided toward the nose.
How can you remove stucked fishbone in your throat?
This may not be the current way, but when my Dad's brother got a fishbone stuck in his throat, they told him to swallow vinager to soften the bone. And by the way, its, "How can you remove a fishbone stuck in your throat?" I'm 11, so my Dad is not old-old
How does excretory and muscular work together?
The Excretory System filters all the waste the Muscular System makes while they are working.
Does food pass through the appendix?
Food only passes through your stomach and intestines not the appendix.
Bile can range in color from pale yellow to brown. The most commonly seen color in vomit is greenish yellow. Bile is excreted from the liver, and is a bright grass green when fresh from the liver. The color changes depending on the length of time it has been in your digestive tract.
What is the functions and muscles in the digestive system?
First of all, the digestive system is full of organs, not muscles. Mouth- mechanically breaks down food by churning and cutting. Esophagus- the long tube the links to the liver, and passes the food down to then liver. Stomach- the holding place for the food for 4-6 hours. The food is then chemically broken down. Pancreas- functions to produce enzymes to send all over the body. Liver- produces bile Gall bladder- stores bile Duodenum- the small tube that links the small intestine and stomach. Small intestine- the 20 ft. Long tube that food passes through to get to the large intestine. Large intestine- the 4ft long tube that passes food to the rectum. Rectum- the place that stores food and waste. Anus- the opening and the end of the rectum that eliminates waste.
What is similar about the excretory system and the digestive system?
The digestive system gets rid of solid waste, but your excretory system gets rid of liquids that your body doesn't need. Also, the digestive system transforms your food into nutrients that your body can use, but the excretory system just excretes.
How does a banana help the digestive system?
A banana made up mostly of Carbon molecules, primarily helps break down food in the digestive track by producing the well-needed nutrient called "Fiber". Fiber is then pushed through the small intestine and out through the large intestine; allowing for easier food diminishment.
What is an easy way to remember the digestive system?
(tune to row row row your boat:)
chew chew chew your food chew it very well
swallow it down into the esophagus, lands in your stomach
dissolve, dissolve, dissolves your food the gastric juices do!
when its done, it travels to your small intestine
travel, travel, travel through the small intestine
ends up going in through the large intestine
poop poop poop it out, get it all out
down the rectum, through the anus, land in the toilet.
The breakdown of complex components of food into simpler substances is called digestion.
How long from eating to excreting?
From the time when you swallow food to the time that you excrete it, the whole process can take anything from 24 to 72 hours. The digestive system varies from individual to individual and factors such as age, diet and lifestyle determine how long the process takes.
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Where does the first step of digestion ocuur?
In the mouth. Your teeth chew food, breaking down fibres, and your saliva also begins chemical break down.
This carries blood from the digestive system to another set of capillaries in the liver?
hepatic portal system
Digesting problems are when a person or animal has trouble digesting food in the stomach or intestings and where an animal and a human suffers unbearableble pain.
What pancreatic cells aid in digestion?
The cells themselves do not play a role, but they produce enzymes to facilitate digestion by breaking down larger molecules into smaller ones.
It is a gland producing above mentioned enzymes externally (in to the lumen of the bowl) and internally (to the blood stream) Insulin/Glucagon.
