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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 chemical and mechanical digestion occur in the digestive system?
Mechanical digestion is done by chewing and griding of food in mouth by the help of teeth and by parastaltic movemetn of stomach.
Chemical digestion is done by break down of complex food into simpler one by the help of some enzymes and digestive juices.
This duct collects donations from the liver and the gall bladder (bile) as it passes along to the duodenum of the small bowel.
Bile ducts are tubes carrying bile from the liver to the intestines.
Where would most likely be evidence that the person is not digesting food correctly?
The presence of simple sugars in the feces.
Do birds have a digestive system?
the birds digestive system works the same as the humans.the birds digestive system starts off with the mouth then the stomach,small intestine,large intestine then the anus.so it is just like humans.
How do the digestive and circulatory systems deliver food to cells?
the digestive system breaks down what we eat the the circulatory system delivers the nutrients to cells for metabolism
Where does chemical digestion of fat occur?
The small intestines, where it is then broken down into glycerol and fatty acids.
What is a role of a human intestine?
To take the nutrients out of food and let them be abosered into your bloodstream
Is mouth mechanical or chemical digestion?
Saliva begins the chemical digestion of starch. It also is important for the success of mechanical digestion of the mouth, but does not, in its own, perform mechanical digestion.
How is a protein broken down into smaller molecules?
If you mean digestion, then it is amino-acids but in case of urinalysis it should be urea.
What happens when indigestion tablets are added to hydrochloric acid?
An explosion over 9000 times as powerful as a nuclear bomb. Please do not try unless you are in fume cupboard
Why is the esophagus flexible?
The esophagus is so long because it needs time for food to digest before more food comes in.
How is diffusion important in the process of digestion?
Diffusion is important to the process of digestion, because it allows certain nutrients to enter the blood stream. Glucose and amino acid are able to enter our blood through diffusion after the food has been broken down in the intestine.
How do the respiratory and digestive system remove waste?
the respiratory system doesnt really "remove" waste. instead it uses mucus to catch dust particles and other possible things like pollen.
the digestive system removes waste by "releaseing" it into the world :P
in other words by pooping
Which digestive system organ is the target of gastrin?
Parietal cells in the stomach, which secrete HCl
What are the three enzymes os digestion?
Only 2 enzymes affect the digestion in stomach: 1. Pepsin 2. Rennin the third one is HCl acid which is required for activation of propepsin or pepsinogen which is the inactive form of pepsin and killing of germs that enter along with the food. Also rennin is present only in young ones and is utilized for breakdown milk protein.in adults, this is achieved by pepsin itself. there are not only 3 but many more enzymes involved in digestion.
What is a digestive system with only one opening called?
A digestive system with only one opening is called an incomplete digestive tract. Organisms with this type of digestive system ingest food and eject waste through their mouth.
The process of breaking down large droplets of fat into small droplets of fat is called?
Homogenisation
Right answer is Bile Emulsification that causes breakdown of f at globules.
