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1
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Define ingestion

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Food is taken in through the mouth, chewed, and swallowed

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Mastication

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Tongue and teeth cut up food and mix it

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Bolus

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Mucus and saliva take the products of mastication and help make a squishy food ball that goes down the esophagus

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What’s in saliva?

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Water, mucus, amylase to start chemical digestion

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Transports food from mouth to stomach

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Esophagus

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Muscular organ that does peristalsis

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Esophagus

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Peristalsis

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Longitudinal and circular muscle contractions - mechanical digestion, also helps transport the food from the mouth to the stomach

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Makes bile to emulsify fats and neutralize chyme

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Liver

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Makes cholesterol

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Liver

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Does a ton of stuff including detoxifying the body

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Liver

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Stomach digestion

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Mixes food with gastric juices with digestive enzymes - chemical digestion. Muscles (it’s a muscular organ) churn and break down food - mechanical digestion.

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What’s in the stomach and why?

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Pepsin - a type of protease.
HCl - kills pathogens, good ph for Pepsin
Chyme - the food mixed with the gastric juices

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Stores bile

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Gallbladder

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Releases bile into duodenum through bile duct

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Gallbladder

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Makes insulin and glucagon

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Pancreas

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Delivers amylase, protease, lipase, and sodium hydrogen carbonate to small intestine

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Pancreas

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Helps neutralize chyme with HCO3

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Pancreas

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1st section of small intestine

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Duodenum

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Pancreatic juices mix with chyme to digest food so it can be absorbed

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Duodenum

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Bile is delivered to the…

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Duodenum

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2nd (and final) section of small intestine

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Ileum

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Food mixed with digestive enzymes and blood

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Ileum

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Most water is absorbed in the…

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Ileum

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Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream

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Ileum

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Churns food to keep it touching the villi

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Illeum

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Assimilation happens in the

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Ileum

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Large intestine

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Water reabsorption happens here (though not as much as in the ileum) to prevent loss of ions, dehydration, and diarrhea

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Feces are stored in the

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Rectum

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29
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Feces are egested through the…

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Anus

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Mechanical digestion

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Physically breaks down food, no chemical change, increases surface area

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Chemical digestion

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Enzymes help break bonds, chemical changes happen

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Digestion

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Nutrients as large insoluble molecules —> small soluble molecules (keep in mind that this is mainly chemical digestion, as mechanical digestion doesn’t actually change any of the chemical properties)

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Absorption

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Nutrients pass from the digestive system into the bloodstream

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Assimilation

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Body cells take in biomolecules for cell processes (eg glucose for respiration)

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Egestion

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Removal of undigested waste

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Excretion

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Removal of byproducts of metabolism (pee)

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Trypsin

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Protease that likes alkaline conditions - in the small intestine

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1st stage of starch digestion

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Amylase breaks starch down into maltose

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2nd stage of starch digestion

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Maltase breaks maltose down into glucose

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Maltase is secreted in the ____ and acts on the ____

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Small intestine, membranes of epithelium lining small intestine

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Lipids are broken down into

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Glycerol and 3 fatty acid tails

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Lipid function

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Triglyceride in body, makes up cell membranes, insulation

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Parts of a balanced diet

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Carbs, vitamins, fats, water, proteins, mineral ions like calcium & iron, fiber

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Carbohydrate function and main sources in diet

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Fruit, vegetables, pasta, bread, potates
Provide short term energy

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Fats function and main sources in diet

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Avocado, nuts, olive oil, oily fish
Provide long term energy

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Protein sources and function in diet

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Meat, fish, eggs, beans, pulses, nuts
Growth and repair

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Vitamin function in diet

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C - Healthy blood vessels, skin, cartilage, bones, and wound healing
D - Calcium and phosphate regulation
A - Immune system and vision

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Calcium and Iron function in diet

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Calcium - strengthens bones and teeth, helps with muscle contraction and clotting of wounds
Iron - produces haemoglobin for red blood cells

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Fiber function in diet

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Helps digestion, helps move food and feces along the gut, associated with lower risks of coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and bowel cancer

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Water function in diet (the source of water is water)

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About 60% of body mass is water - needed for almost everything

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Deficiency disease

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Illness caused by insufficient intake of a nutrient in the diet or the inability to absorb it efficiently

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Rickets - cause and symptoms

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Vitamin D deficiency - bone pain, weak muscles, bone loss with increased risk of fractures/skeletal deformities

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Scurvy - cause and symptoms

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Vitamin C deficiency - severe leg/joint pain, tiredness, weakness, blue or red spots on skin which bruise easily, swollen/bleeding gums

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Alimentary canal

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The canal down which food travels - mouth to esophagus to stomach to duodenum to ileum to large intestine to rectum to anus - does the physical digestion (though mouth and stomach do do some enzymes) and organs provide most of the enzymes

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Molar and premolar function

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Chew, crush, grind food

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Canine function

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Hold and tear food

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Incisors function

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Cut and slice food

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Stages of tooth decay

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Healthy tooth with plaque - Bacteria anaerobically respire with food, make acid which wears down teeth
Decay in enamel - acid wears out surface - takes time, no pain
Decay in dentine - Erosion is faster in dentine bc softer - pain
Decay in pulp - Erosion hits pulp with its nerves and blood vessels - EXTRA PAIN

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Enamel

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Hardest tissue in body, made by tooth forming cells - outer layer of tooth

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Dentine

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Major part of tooth. Hard. Made of calcium salts on collagen fibers. Canals -> pulp cavity. Under the enamel

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Pulp

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Full of nerves and blood vessels, goes down into root

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Gum

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Acts as junction between enamel and cement

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Cement

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Like dentine but no canals. Anchors jaw

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Crown

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Top part of tooth, above gum

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Root

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Bottom part of tooth, below gum

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Bile function

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Emulsifies fats into small droplets, allows lipase to chemically digest fats into tiny fat droplets

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Villi function

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Increase surface area for absorption of digested food molecules and water into the bloodstream, constant movement to mix food, enzyme secretion, capillaries for blood supply, CONCENTRATION GRADIENT

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Epithelium

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Had epithelial and goblet cells, thin so short diffusion pathway

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Capillary network

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Transports glucose and amino acids, IS THE BLOODSTREAM

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Lacteal

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transports fatty acids and glycerol

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Nerve

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Wrapped around lacteal with the capillaries

72
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Gland

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Makes digestive enzymes, probably spurts them out?

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Goblet cell

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Makes mucus to protect body from its own digestive enzymes

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Epithelial cell

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Covered in microvilli, part of epithelium

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