B2- Organisation Flashcards
What is a tissue?
A group of similar cells that work together to perform a specific function.
What is the function of muscle tissue?
To contract to move what it’s attached to.
What is the function of glandular tissue?
It makes and secretes chemicals like enzymes or hormones.
Where is epithelial tissue found?
It covers some parts of the body, e.g. the inside of the gut.
What is the role of muscular tissue in the stomach?
Moves the stomach wall to churn up food.
What is the role of epithelial tissue in the stomach?
Covers the inside and outside of the stomach.
Explain what is meant by the term “organ system”.
A group of organs working together to perform a specific function.
What does the digestive system do?
Breaks down and absorbs food.
What is the role of glands in the digestive system? Give 2 examples.
They produce digestive juices.
E.g. pancreas, salivary glands.
What is the role of the liver in the digestive system?
Produces bile.
What is the role of the stomach and small intestine in the digestive system?
- They both digest food
- Small intestine absorbs soluble food molecules
What is the role of the large intestine in the digestive system?
Absorbs water from undigested food (leaving faeces).
- What are enzymes?
- What are they made out of?
- They are large proteins which break down large molecules into smaller, soluble ones.
- Proteins are made of chains of amino acids.
- These are folded into unique shapes (i.e. active sites).
Why can enzymes be described as biological catalysts?
- The body needs to speed up chemical reactions
- Raising body temperature isn’t a good way of doing this, because this accelerates unwanted reactions and harms cells
- So we have enzymes which speed up reactions instead
What is a catalyst?
A substance which increases the speed of a reaction without being altered or used up in the reaction.
The substance that an enzyme acts on is called the…
Substrate.
Why do enzymes usually only catalyse one reaction?
For enzymes to work, the substrate has to fit into its active site. If it doesn’t, the reaction won’t be catalysed.
Why is the lock and key model of enzymes slightly inaccurate?
- The model shows the enzyme remaining the same after a reaction.
- The active site actually changes shape a little as the substrate binds to it (to fit tighter).
- This is referred to as the induced fit model.
Enzymes have an optimum ___ and ___, which is often ___.
- Temperature
- pH
- Neutral
What is meant by an enzyme being “denatured”? Describe how this happens and what leads up to it.
- An increase in temperature will increase the rate of reaction until the enzyme reaches its optimum temperature.
- At a certain temperature, bonds in an enzyme are broken.
- This changes the shape of the active site- substrate doesn’t fit.
The enzyme amylase catalyses the breakdown of starch to maltose. Iodine can be used to detect starch- if starch is present, iodine solution will change from browny-orange to blue-black.
Describe how you could investigate the effect of pH on the rate of amylase activity.
1) Put a drop of iodine solution into every well of a spotting tile.
2) Place a bunsen burner on a heatproof mat and a tripod and gauze over the bunsen burner.
3) Put a beaker of water on top of the gauze and heat it until it reacher 35°C (measure using a thermometer). Try to keep the water temperature constant throughout the experiment.
4)Put a boiling tube in the beaker. Use a syringe to add 1cm3 of amylase solution and 1cm3 of a buffer solution (pH 5) to the boiling tube.
5) Use a different syringe to add 5cm3 of a starch solution to the boiling tube. Immediately mix the contents and start a stopwatch.
6) Use continuous sampling to record how long it takes for the amylase to break down all of the starch. Do this by using a pipette to take a sample from the boiling tube every 30 seconds and putting a drop into different wells of the spotting tile. When the iodine solution remains browny-orange, starch is no longer present.
7) Repeat the experiment with buffer solutions of different pH values to see how pH affects the time taken for the starch to be broken down.
The enzymes used in digestion are produced by ___ and then released into the ___ to mix with food.
- specialised cells in glands and in the gut lining, gut.
What do enzymes do to starch, proteins and fats, and why?
They are molecules too big to pass through the walls of the digestive system- they can’t be absorbed into the bloodstream. Enzymes break them down into smaller, soluble molecules.
Give 4 examples of smaller molecules that result from enzymes breaking down starches, proteins and fats.
Sugars (e.g. glucose and maltose), amino acids, glycerol and fatty acids.
Starch is a….
Carbohydrate.
In what three places is amylase made?
- The salivary glands
- The pancreas
- The small intestine
What is amylase and what does it do?
It is a carbohydrase and it catalyses the breakdown of starch- a carbohydrate- into maltose and other sugars like dextrins.
What do proteases do?
Convert proteins into amino acids.
In what three places are proteases made?
- The stomach (it’s called pepsin there - pepsin is one type of protease)
- The pancreas
- The small intestine
What do lipases do?
Convert lipids into glycerol and fatty acids.
In what two places are lipases made?
- The pancreas
- The small intestine
What does the body do with the products of digestion?
- Make them into new carbohydrates, proteins and lipids
- Some glucose is used in respiration
Where is bile produced?
In the liver.
Where is bile stored before it’s released into the small intestine?
The gall bladder.
What does bile do?
- Neutralises stomach acid: hydrochloric acid in the stomach makes the pH too acidic for enzymes in the small intestine to work properly. Bile is alkaline so it neutralises the acid and makes conditions alkaline, which is best for enzymes in the small intestine.
- Emulsifies fats: breaks fats into tiny droplets, giving fats a bigger surface area for the enzyme lipase to work on. This makes its digestion faster.
An enzyme controlled reaction was carried out at pH 4. After 60 seconds, 33cm3 of product had been released. Calculate the rate of reaction in cm3 s-1.
33/60 = 0.55cm3 s-1
What is the formula used to calculate the rate of reaction for a certain pH?
Amount of product formed = change
change/time(s)
(units: cm3 s-1 or cm3/s)
Label the diagram.
What enzyme do the salivary glands produce?
Amylase.
What digestive enzyme does the stomach produce? What other substance is produced by the stomach and why?
- Pepsin (a type of protease).
- Hydrochloric acid, to kill bacteria, and to give the right pH (2) for pepsin to function.
What is the function of the stomach?
- Pummels food with its muscular walls.
- Produces pepsin.
- Produces HCl - to kill bacteria, and to give the right pH (2) for pepsin to function.
What is the function of the liver?
To produce bile.
What is stored in the gall bladder?
Bile.
What is the function of the pancreas?
Produces the enzymes protease, amylase and lipase and releases these into the small intestine.
What is the function of the small intestine?
- Produces the enzymes protease, amylase and lipase to complete digestion.
- Here, nutrients from digested food are absorbed into the blood.
What is the function of the large intestine?
This is where excess water is absorbed from food.
What is the function of the rectum?
This is where faeces is stored before it is excreted through the anus.
Describe the pathway of ingested food as it travels through the digestive system. (6 marks)
- When the food is chewed in the mouth, it is digested by the enzyme amylase in saliva (produced by the salivary glands).
- It travels town the oesophagus to the stomach, which pummels the food with its muscular walls. The stomach also produces pepsin, to digest the food, and hydrochloric acid, to kill bacteria and provide the optimal pH for pepsin to function.
- When the food reaches the small intestine, it is neutralised by bile (produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder).
- It is digested by the enzymes protease, amylase and lipase (produced mostly by the pancreas and a little by the small intestine).
- Nutrients from the digested food are then absorbed into the bloodstream.
- In the large intestine, excess water is absorbed from the food, leaving faeces.
- The faeces is stored in the rectum before being excreted through the anus.
Before doing a food test, how would you prepare a food sample?
- Break a piece of food up with a mortar and pestle.
- Transfer it to a beaker and stir in some distilled water.
- Filter out any solid bits of food.