Areas of absorption chart

Question 1

Carbohydrates: oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus

Answer 1

Salivary amalaze breaks polysaccharides into smaller polysaccharides and disaccharides into maltose

Question 2

Carbohydrates: Stomach

Answer 2

Nothing

Question 3

Small intestine (enzymes secreted by pancreas): Carbohydrates

Answer 3

Pancreatic amalaze breaks polysaccharides into disaccharides

Question 4

Small intestine (enzymes secreted by epithelium): Carbohydrates

Answer 4

Disaccharides break up into monosaccharides

Question 5

Protein digestion: Stomach

Answer 5

Pepsin breaks proteins into small polypeptides

Question 6

Small intestine (enzymes secreted by pancreas): Proteins

Answer 6

Chymotrypsin and pancreatic trypsin break the small polysaccharides into smaller polysaccharides

Pancreatic carboxylase breaks the polysaccharides into peptides

Question 7

Small intestine (enzymes secreted by epithelium):Proteins

Answer 7

Dipeptidases, aminopeptidases and carboxylases break the small peptides into amino acids

Question 8

Small intestine (enzymes secreted by pancreas): Nucleic acids

Answer 8

Pancreatic nucleases break DNA and RNA into nucleotides

Question 9

Small intestine (enzymes secreted by epithelium): Nucleic acids

Answer 9

Nuclotidases break nucleotides into nucleosides

Nuclotidases and phosphates break nucleosides into nitrogeneous bases, sugars and phosphates

Question 10

Small intestine (enzymes secreted by pancreas): Fats

Answer 10

Pancreatic lipase breaks triglycerides into glycerol, fatty acids and monoglycerides