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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 is the process of changing food to substances?
The process of changing food to substances that can be used by the body is known as digestion. In the average adult, the whole process of digestion takes about 50 hours.
Which region of the human gut contains enzymes pepsin?
The stomach is constantly filled with some quantity of gastric acid. Gastric acid, which is made of hydrochloric acid, potassium chloride, and sodium chloride, is vital in the digestion process.
Characteristic shared by all enzymes involved in protein digestion is that all are?
They break down food and they both work closeley with insulin.
Where does mechanical digestion and chemical digestion occur along the digestive tract?
Mechanical Digestion happens in the mouth where your food is physically broken down. Chemical digestion happens in your intestines, where enzymes break down and absorb nutirients
the salivery gland secretes saliva which contains an enzyme called amylase which reacts on carbohydrate to produce glucose.digestion of protien begins in the stomach which secrets gastric juice.fats are also digested by enzymes produced in the pancreas and the liver.
What does chemical digestion do in the small intestine?
This is when food particles are breaking down into even tinier pieces by: hydrochloric acid in your stomach. That is chemical digestion.
Does a mealworm have a digestive system?
I don't know either. i have to answer questions for my science class and i cant figure it out anywhere!!
The rectum removes food from the large intestine that cannot be digested?
It is kind of true. It is more accurate to say that the rectum removes food from the large intestine that has already been digested.
A+ True
Who does the small intestines help with digestion?
the lengthb increase the surface area so that it can better absorb nutrients
Most people tend to like eating, or at least enjoy other aspects of food, such as cooking or eating certain types of food.
What happens when you excrete?
I have not been able to excrete in 3 weeks. I have taken stool softners, laxatives, eating prunes, drinking a lot of water and even tried enemas. What else can I try and what will happen if I still don't go to the bathroom?
What is part of the earthworm's digestive system that grinds food?
The Gizzard, it's the part of the worm that grinds up foods or solids.
Which of the following carries the products of fat digestion to the bloodstream?
Chylomicrons carry the fat droplets from the gut wall, through portal circulation to the liver. Then cholesterol carries it from the liver to the rest of the body.
Food is primarily digested in?
Food is digested mostly in the small intestine. However, it starts to be digested when we start eating it in the mouth.
Why does the body not absorb the food in the same form you ingest it?
It is too large until it has been broken down into very TINY pieces. Your cells are so small that they can not be seen without a microscope. The food has to be that small.
What would happen if you did not have a digestive system?
My answer is:
If the digestive system is gone no one will provide the breaking down of the food pieces into smaller pieces/particles, no one will absorbed and transported the foods throughout the body. Without the digestive system the food that you will eat will not be digest. (its kinda nonsense but i think i can help)
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What is the process of food traveling through the esophagus called?
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What enzyme is present in the stomach?
Pepsin is activated by acid in the stomach and breaks proteins -- including those in meat, dairy, eggs and vegetable sources.
