Animal Structures Flashcards
What are the 5 main types of Nutrients and what do they do?
Carbohydrates- basically short term energy storage
Fats - Long term energy storage
Proteins - 20 types of amino acid monomers
Vitamins and Minerals - both need to be eaten
What is sucrose made of?
Fructose and glucose, bonded through an oxygen
What is maltose made of?
glucose and glucose, bonded by oxygen
What lactose made of?
glucose and galactose
What’s the difference between unsaturated and saturated fats?
Unsaturated fats have double bonds (poly vs. mono) and are liquid at SATP
Saturated fats have no double bonds and are solid at SATP
What are proteins made of?
Long strains of amino acids, which are made of central carbon, lone hydrogen, amino group, carboxyl group and a side chain.
What’s the formula for cellular respiration?
C6H12O6 + 6O2 -> 6CO2 + 6H2O + 36 ATP (adenosine triphosphate)
What are the stages of processing food?
Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption and Elimination
What is the general processes of digestion?
Oral Cavity, Esophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine, Large Intestine
What enzymes help break down carbohydrates?
Salivary amylase from the salivary glands and pancreatic amylase from the pancreas turn carbs into disaccharides.
Then the small intestine releases maltase (glucose+glucose), sucrase (glucose+fructose), lactase (glucose+galactose)
What enzymes help break down lipids?
Lipases from the pancreas turn lipids into fatty acids and glycerol. Bile from the liver also helps but doesn’t really digest food.
What enzymes help break down proteins?
Pepsinogen from the stomach turns protein into small polypeptide chains and then trypsinogen from the pancreas turns dipeptides into amino acids
While peptidase turns remaining polypeptides into amino acids in the small intestine.
What helps kill the bacteria we eat?
Hydrochloric acid in the stomach is released from the gastric glands, which is then neutralized by bicarbonate released by the duodenum.
What are the major parts of the large intestine?
appendix, caecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, rectum, anus
What are the major parts of the small intestine?
duodenum, jejunum, ileum