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Food process |
![]() Ingestion Digestion Absorption Elimination |
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Strategies for ingestion |
Filter feeders: sift food particles from water (humpback whale), includes suspension feeders Substrate feeders: animals that live on food source (worms, maggots) Fluid feeders: suck fluids from host (mosquito) Bulk feeders: eat relatively large pieces of food (humans, pythons) |
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Digestion |
Process of breaking food down into molecules small enough to absorb Mechanical and chemical |
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Chemical digestion |
![]() Splits food into small molecules that can pass through membranes through enzymatic hydrolysis (adding water to split binds) Used to build larger molecules |
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Mechanical digestion |
Chewing food to increase surface area of food |
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Absorption |
Animals cells take up small molecules (amino acids, simple sugars) from digestive compartment |
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Elimination |
Undigested material passes out of digestive compartment |
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Intercellular digestion |
![]() Particles of food are engulfed by phagocytosis and liquids by pinocytosis Food vacuoles fuse with lysosomes with hydrolytic enzymes These enzymes break food down |
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Extracellular digestion |
![]() Breakdown of food particles outside of cells Occurs in compartments that are continuous with the outside of the animals body Have a gastriovascular cavity (digest and distributes nutrients) |
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Complete digestive track or alimentary canal |
![]() Digestive tube with Mouth and anus (more complex body simple) Deutoerosomes Food moves in one direction, tube is organized into special regions to digest and absorb in an stepwise fashion
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Mammalian digestive system |
![]() 2 openings Long tube-gastrointestinal tract Accessory glands (liver, gallbladder, pancreas ) Special compartments: pharynx, esophagus, stomach, sm. Intestine, lrg intestine, rectum, anus Nerves and hormones control digestive activities |
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Oral cavity |
First stage of digestion: both mechanical and chemical Teeth of various shapes increase surface area
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The mouth |
![]() Lips: orbicularis Oris muscle Cheeks: mass eater and buccinator muscles Tongue: skeletal muscle, taste buds Uvula: projection in back keeps from stuff going in nasal passage Tonsils and adenoids: lymphoid tissue, immunocompetent tissue, 1st line of defense against ingested or inhaled pathogens |
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Salivary glands |
![]() Saline to lubricant food 1. Parotid: stensens ducts 2. Submandibular: Wharton’s ducts 3. Sublingual |
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Saliva contains... |
Amylase: enzyme, hydrolysizes starch and glycogen into smaller molecules (maltose), also releases food particles stick in teeth Mucus: viscous mix of water, salt, cells, and glycoproteins (protects mouth from abrasions, lubricates food for swallowing) Buffers: neutralize acid to prevent tooth decay Lysozyme: antibacterial agent, targets peptidogylcan cell wall in bacteria |
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Process of swallowing |
![]() Tongue: shapes food into bolus, moves food back to pharynx Pharynx: throat, opens to esophagus and trachea Esophagus: connects to stomach (muscle tube usually collapsed except during swallowing) Trachea: leads to lung |
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Peristalsis |
Rhythmic contraction of smooth muscle that moves food down esophagus |
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Parts that help move food |
![]() Soft palate: closes off the nesopharynx Trachea moves upward, epiglottis does to downward position Sphincter (ring like valve) muscle: closes esophagus from stomach (relaxing it allows food to move through) |
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Extra swallowing image |
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4 layers of digestive tract |
![]() 1. Mucosa 2. Submucosa 3. Muscularis 4. Serosa |
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Mucosa |
![]() Simple columnar epithelial cells supported by connective tissue and smooth muscle Lines lumen Glandular epithelial cells produce enzymes Goblet cells produce mucus |
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Submucosa |
![]() Loose connective tissue Contains blood vessels Peyers patches- lymph node nodules (helps protect from disease) |
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Muscluaris |
![]() 2 layers of smooth muscle -circular inner layer encircles tube -longitudinal outer layer running perpendicular |
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Serosa |
![]() Squamous epithelium Secretes serous fluid to moisten surface (prevents abrasions as organs slid against one another) |
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Images |
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Esophagus |
![]() Upper 1/3: striated muscle, voluntary control Lower 2/3: smooth muscle layers of circular and longitudinal fiber arrangement (food is pushed through, peristalsis contractions, involuntary) |
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Sphincter valves |
![]() Regulates the movement of material btw compartments Esophagus: gastroesophageal Pyloric: gastric duodenal Iieocecal Internal and external of rectum |
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Stomach digestion |
![]() Receives food from thoracic cavity Stomach is in abdominal cavity, stores food and begins digestion of proteins Secretes gastric juice, mixes it with food by churning action of smooth muscles in stomach wall This mixture is called chyme |
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Stomach |
![]() J-shaped organ with thick walls due to 3 layers of muscle (oblique, circular, longitudinal) These muscles mechanically digest and stretch. Churning motion Rugae- 4 according-like folds of mucosa Controls movement of chyme into sm intestine |
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Chemical digestion |
Two components of gastric juices: HCL and protease (pepsin) HCL: Chyme has a pH of 2 (could dissolve a nail) allows for-kills bacteria, break down extracellular matrix and denatures proteins (exposing peptide bonds) Protease: protein digesting enzyme called pepsin (adapted to acidic environments) attacks peptide bonds when exposed to make proteins smaller and further expose ingested tissue |
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Pepsin |
Portease or protein digesting enzyme Cleaves proteins into smaller amino acids at peptide bonds (phenylaline, tryptophan, tyrosine) |
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Gastric pit of stomach |
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3 types of cells: mucous, chief, parietal Parietal and chief cells produce components of gastric juices |
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Mucous cells |
Secrete mucus and protect cell lining from pepsin Adds new layer of epithelial cells every 3 days to replace before lining is fully eroded (when this is ineffective, ulcers appears) Acid tolerant bacteria, pylori, causes ulcers
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Chief cells |
![]() Secrete inactive pepsinogen HCL clips off small portion of molecule and exposes its active site, activating pepsin (forms in lumen of stomach, not in cells to protect them) Positive feedback system: activated pepsin stimulates more pepsinogen molecules |
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Parietal cells |
Secrete hydrogen and chloride ions separately into lumen of stomach (Use ATP pump for H ions, Cl-diffusion) This prevents harm to cells |
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Digestion |
Empties every 2-6 hours after a meal Contracts and relaxes muscle to churn food every 20 seconds Foods are not absorbed in stomach but alcohol and other liquids are |
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Stomach dynamic |
Backflow of acid chyme: from stomach into lower esophagus (acid reflux) due to sphincter at top of stomach, irritates esophagus creating “heartburn” |