Digestive System: Parts And Functions

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Functions of Digestive System?

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-breakdown foods and nutrients

- absorb nutrient

-absorb water

-secrete wastes

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Start of digestion?

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Mouth

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Breaking down food into smaller particles by chewing, grinding and cutting

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Teeth

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A liquid producrd by the Salivary Glands

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Saliva

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It has chemical receptoes sensitive to the chemical composition and specific tastes of food

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Tongue

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Tongue's 5 different tastes

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Sweet

Sour

Bitter

Salyu

Umami

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Flap of tissue that covers the trachea

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Epiglottis

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Tube that connects mouth and stomach; it is a passageway

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Esophagus

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The rhythmic contraction of the gut muscles that propels materials along the length of the digestive tract

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Peristalsis

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Acid digestion occurs in the stomach

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Stomach

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Stomach releases two types of acid

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Gastrin and Pepsin

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A hormone stimulates acid release

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Gastrin

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An enzyme that breaks up proteins, requires an acidic environment to become active

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Pepsin

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Causes pain when stomach is empty, these are bacterial infection that create ulcerations

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Stomach ULCERS

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Due to weakness in the sphincter muscle at the top of the stomach

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Acid Reflux

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Lined with millions of microvili

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Small Intestine

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The walls of small intestine is the site of?

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Nutrient Absorption

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It also occurs during nutrient reabsorption

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Water reabsorption

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Small intestine:

-Digestion of food starts

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Duodenum

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Small intestine:

-final chemical digestion and nutrient absorption takes place

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Jejunum

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Small Intestine:

-final absorption of digested foods

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Ileum

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Releases pancreatic juice,containing bicarbonate, lipases, proteases and amylase

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Pancreas

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Makes bile which emulsifies fats

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Liver

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Made from cholesterol which is made in the liver

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Bile

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Vastly increase the intestines surface area

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Villi and Microvilli

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Water from digested food is absorbed

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Large Intestine

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It is formed from fiber and other undigested material

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Feces

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Most Digestion occurs in

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Small intestine

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Why do we have microvilli

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Because it increased the intestines surface area

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Found in the stomach produced when food is present and signals the release of acid

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Gastrin

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Signals the release of soidum bicarbonate for the pancreas

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Secretin

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Recently discovered and control appetite

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Ghrelin and Leptin