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    Digestive System Function Overview Our digestive system is responsible for in-taking and digesting the food that we consume and extracting what we need to carry out day-to-day actions. If you’re interested in how this is achieved, then this article should serve you well in ascertaining that knowledge. Part 1: Digestive System Function 1. Mouth The first part of the digestive system, or tract, is the mouth. The mouth provides an important role in the consumption of food at is the primary…

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    Essay On Digestive System

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    The digestive system is a group of organs that convert food into energy to feed the entire body. The alimentary is made up of the pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, and large intestines. Organs of the digestive system include the teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. In the digestive system it all begins with the mouth. Inside the mouth are many organs that help the food to be chopped up and swallowed . Teeth chop food into small pieces, which are…

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    primarily affects the gastrointestinal tract, the lower part of the digestive system. The gastrointestinal tract is a pathway of many similarly hollow organs joined in a long twisting road connecting the stomach to the anus. The contractions of muscles in the GI tract helps in the digestion of food and with the production of many different hormones and enzymes. Crohn’s disease is a fatal disease caused by the inflammation of your digestive tract, which can lead to abdominal pain, severe…

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    Digestion In Horses

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    Horses have a type of digestion that is called hind-gut fermentation a type of digestion characterized by a relatively small fore-gut and mid gut which digesta passes through fairly quickly. To the hind-gut where the majority of digestion occurs via microbiological forces. Staring out the digesta is swallowed into the stomach which in a horse is monogastric having only one chamber to it. That said, it is not the kidney bean shape that we would think of in humans or pigs, but it has a more…

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    Cellular Catabolism

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    The activities of key enzymes of carbohydrate, fat, and amino acid catabolism in flight muscle and heart were measured as well as the required energy demand. It was determined that the high ATP requirement of short term hoovering can only be supported by the oxidation of carbohydrate…

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    Acid Phosphatase Lab

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    Most enzymes are catalytic proteins made up of amino acids and are a key part of the breakdown and synthesis of virtually every biological catalysis reaction mechanism. The primary function of a catalytic enzyme is to increase the rate of reaction by helping the enzyme overcome the activation energy barrier without the reaction consuming or changing the enzyme. In enzymatic reactions, the substrate binds to the highly specific enzyme active site (the substrate-binding domain) and forms an…

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    crabs, squid, many insects, cats, eagles, trout, and frogs. Omnivores, animals who eat both plants and other animals are; humans, pigs, bears, and crows. Depending on what their diet and structure is, animals will have a different digestive system. Invertebrate’s digestive system are bags or tubes. For example, flatworms such as planarians, contain only one opening that serves for both…

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    functionality of the body. Therefore one can conclude that, acid-base reactions affect the human body through its role in the digestive, urinary, and respiratory system while also exemplifying fundamental principles of chemistry. The digestive system utilizes acids to break down carbohydrates and proteins as they enter the mouth. Another mechanism involved in the digestive process is the stomach, which secrets hydrochloric acid.…

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    The nervous system carries data to and from the brain and spinal cord to various bodily parts. There are three main functions of the nervous system, including sensory input, integration of data and motor output which occurs in the Brain and/or Spinal Cord. Sensory input is described as when the body gathers information of data, which correlates with the human senses such as touch, taste and sight. Integration of data occurs in the brain only once the brain has processed the information and is…

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    The oral cavity were our food begins with saliva the digest down to are esophagcic flowing to our stomach were we have our large intestine then are small intestine making us to digest our food from our rectum causing us to have an bowl movement properly then the organ in our mouth cauese food to change by the side of form of your body and the foods is a mixer of saliva then then savila begins to resolve in your mouth causes you to move your bowl movement to digest in your system propley,then the…

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