Biology Digestion

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Final portion of large intestine

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Rectum

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Digested molecules of food, water and minerals absorbed

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Small intestine

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Contains tiny glands that produce juices to digest food, found in mouth, stomach and am.intestine

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Mucosa

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Solid wastes eliminate here

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Anus

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Digestion starts here

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Mouth

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Job of digestive system

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Take in and break down food for use by the body

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Stores swallows food and mixes it with digestive juices

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Stomach

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Tiny finger-like projections in sm.intestine

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Villi

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Produces bile

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Liver

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Organ produces enzymes to break down fat, carbohydrates and proteins

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Pancreas

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Tube carries food from mouth to stomach

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Esophagus

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Organ stores liver's digestive juices until needed in intestines

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Gall bladder

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Purpose of eating food

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Ingestion, digestion, absorption, Egestion

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Helps food move through esophagus

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Peristalsis

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Two types of digestion

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Mechanical and chemical

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What is an enzyme?

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Catalyst that speeds breakdown of digestion

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Salivary gland extretes

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Saliva and amylase

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What does amylase break down?

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Complex carbohydrates

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Role of stomach

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Churns food into chyme

Regulates food entering/leaving

Releases pepsin and protease

Stomach walls release mucus, water and hydrochloric acid

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Hydrochloric acid function

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Creates optimum environment for pepsin and protease

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Purpose of mucus

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Protect stomach lining

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Function of pepsin and protease

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Break down long amino acids into smaller amino acid chains

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Mucus is made of what?

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Protein

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Food moves from stomach to

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Duodenum in sm.intestine

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Food moves from stomach to small intestine by

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Peristalsis

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Parts of small intestine

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Ileum

Duodenum

Jejenum

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Hormone released to induce bicarb production to reduce acidity from.stomach to sm intestine

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Secretin

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Pancreas

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Releases many enzymes to aid digestion of organic molecules

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Peristalsis uses this muscle

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Smooth muscle

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Amylase breaks down

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What breaks starch down

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Emulsifies fat so it has larger surface area for digestion

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Bile

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Lipids and broken down by

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Lipase breaks down

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Monomers created when lipids broken down

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Glycerol and fatty acids

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Amylase breaks down

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Carbohydrates broken down by

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Organs Produce amylase

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Mouth and pancreas

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Hormone secreted into bloodstream when proteins are present in stomach.

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Gastrin

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Function of gastrin

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Stimulates secretion of acid into the stomach

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Fatty acids are absorbed

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Lympth vessels and small intestine absorb

Lympth vessels and small intestine absorb

vessels and small intestine absorb

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Organ stores bile for use when fat enters stomach

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Role of gall bladder

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Description of villi

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Finger-like projections to increase surface area and absorb nutrients into bloodstream

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Chemical digestion of lipids begins here

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Small intestine starts what?

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Sphincters

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Control direction and rate of flow of food

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Organs Secrete into small intestine

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Liver and pancreas

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Large intestine

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Absorbs vitamins, minerals and excess water

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Organ produces bile

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Liver

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Accessory glands in digestive system

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Wall of GI tract

Salivary glands

Liver

Pancreas

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Organ Produces insulin

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What does pancreas do

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Purpose of insulin

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Allows glucose to be taken into body cells

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Food spends this long in sm intestine

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11hours

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Proteins become

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Amino acids made from

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Jejenum

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Middle section of SI measuring 8ft

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Mechanical digestion

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Happens in mouth and stomach

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Rugae

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Small projections in stomach to aid mechanical digestion

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Role of bicarbonate

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Neutralise stomach acid

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Hydrochloric acid

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Combines with pepsinogen to make pepsin to break down proteins

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Kidneys excrete water daily

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1-2 litres extrete

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Salt excreted from kidney

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6-8g excrete from kidney

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Urine mostly consist of

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Water is main part of

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Urine acidity

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1000 times more acidic than blood

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Amino acids and glucose

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Abnormal found in urine

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Hormone ADH

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Controls water reabsorption

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Hyperkalemia

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Kidney failure

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Blood in renal artery

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More urea than renal vein

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Filtration occurs between

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Process between blood plasma and kidney filtrate

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Ureter

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Tube connecting kidney to bladder

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Reabsorption

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Movement of substances from kidney filtrate into blood

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Highest pressure

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Renal artery

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Osmosis

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Water movement through cells

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Active transport

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Movement of glucose from kidney filtrate into blood

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Protein break down

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Urea made from

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Liver produces

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Urea produced in