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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 does physical digestion begin?
This form of digestion starts in the mouth with the salivary gland witch break down food
What enters the small intestine?
Different types of nutrients are absorbed through small finger like structures called Villi.
What color does indigestion tablet turn universal indicator?
Yes, if the tablet is crushed and solved in water.
Which of these is used by both the digestive and respiratory systems?
The pharynx is part of both the digestive and respiratory systems.
Explain Why the duodenum is vital to digest?
The duodenum is the first part of the intestine; it is the place that the stomach empties it's contents into. Along with that, the duodenum is an essential digestion site. The pancreas, liver and gallbladder all secrete important digestive enzymes into the duodenum. The enzymes digest fats, proteins and fats. Much activity goes on in the duodenum, which is why the duodenum is so crucial for digestion.
What is specific macromolecule is bile used to break down during digestion in a pig?
Bile is a compound used to digest fat that are manufactured by the liver from cholesterol. Most bile is produced in the liver from cholesterol and concentrated in the gall bladder.
When something happens that interferes with the removal of water by the large intestine is called?
diarrhea
It's not always grey. The color would be determined by what you eat, how much acid you produce in your stomach, and of course, whether you are color-blind or not.
What connects to the mouth to the stomach?
nope esophagos connects mouth to stomach
from the pharynx to the stomach
yes it connects your throte and stomach. IT IS AFTER THE SLIVARY GLANDS AND IT LEADS TO THE STOMACH.
The Oesophagus comes from the mouth and leads to the stomach.
Esophagus
Where does food leave the digestive system and into the circulatory system?
digestive system throw the waste and dirt from the body and nutrients enters the circulatory system through capillaries.
What is the advantage of a tubelike digestive system over a saclike digestive system?
One advantage of having a tube-like digestive tract is that digestive processes with different requirements (for example, an acidic or basic environment) can be separated within the tract.
Because food moves along the alimentary canal in a single direction, the tube can be organized into specialized compartments that carry out digestion and nutrient aborption in a step-wise fashion.
Where and when does your body digest proteins?
your body digests protein because it is an important nutrient for staying healthy. Just as it digests fat and carbohydrates
Mechanical digestion is the physical mashing and pulling apart of food like chewing your food. Chemical digestion uses acids and enzymes to chemically break down the food until it is small enough to be absorbed through the wall of the small intestine.
How do healthy food help digestion?
There are several foods that contain substances called prebiotics and probiotics. In essence, they are good bacteria that helps maintain gut health. For example, yogurt can contain these types of bacteria. Mountain High yogurt has several strains and Kefir yogurt has about 10 strains. Both of these can help improve the bacteria profile in the stomach and can help improve digestion.
What are the 3 most important parts of the digestive system?
stomach, large intestine, and small intestine- ur welcome!
The alimentary canal (also called the gastrointestinal [GI] tract) is made of several segments, some of which are mentioned in the question. The GI tract begins in the mouth, which secretes important digestive enzymes and performs mechanical digestion. Next is the esophagus, which is merely a vessel for transporting mashed up food from the mouth into the stomach. The stomach secretes acid and enzymes that continue the process of digestion. Next is the small intestine, which contains three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. Digestive enzymes are added in the duodenum by the pancreas. These enzymes act in all segments of the small intestine to aid digestion. Next is the colon, which is broken down into the ascending, transverse, descending, and sigmoid colon. The colon plays a somewhat minor role in absorption of digested particles and water. Then is the rectum and anus, which don't play a significant role in digestion or absorption, but rather contribute to continence and bowel movements.
What happens in that first step of digestion?
Mastication - chewing. Your saliva, coupled with the chewing actions of your jaw/teeth, begin the disgestion process.
How does your food get from your mouth to the throat?
The food is sort of squeezed down by the esophagus due to the contraction of smooth muscles present on the inner side of the esophagus and this contraction is actually a movement known as peristalsis.
It is just like squeezing something inside a tube or a pipe.
peristalsis
The organ that is the first major site chemical digestion?
The first major site of chemical digestion in frog is their stomach
