avezzano_venus quiz: Digestion Begins Flashcards
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- What absorbs primarily water
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- The entire digestive system
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- What is the largest internal organ?
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- Liver
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- The alimentary canal does not include
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- Salivary glands
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- What is the process that involves muscle contractions that move food through the esophagus and other organs of the digestion system?
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- Peristalsis
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4
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- What is not a function of the digestive system.?
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- Transports nutrients to other organs
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5
Q
- Why do we need to break apart the food we eat?
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- So our bodies can use the nutrients from the food
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6
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- If you wanted to find the tissue that secretes pepsin where would you look?
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- In your stomach lining
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7
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- What organs are considered accessory organs of the digestion?
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- Teeth, gallbladder, liver, pancreas
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