Berry_Clisby Test- Digestive System Flashcards
- What is bolus?
It is what food is called after it’s been partially broken down in the mouth
- WKST- Digestion Process Begins, and Final Digestion and Absorption
- In what part of the body does most chemical digestion take place?
Small intestine
- CLF- Digestive System
- What is chyme?
It is what food is called after it’s been digested by the stomach
- WKST- Food and Energy
- What digestive organ releases enzymes that he,o break down startches, protein, and fats in the small intestine
Pancreas
- CLF- Digestive System
- The tooth that provides the main structure of the tooth
Dentin
- CLF- Digestive system
- Which nutrients are made up of amino acids?
Proteins
- WKST - Food and energy
- Where does digestion of carbohydrates begin?
Teeth
53.WKST- Food and Energy
- The tongues function is..
Mix the food with enzymes and position food for swallowing
- WKST- Digestion Process Begins, and Final Digestion and Absorption
- About half of the different ______ that make up proteins are inside the body
Amino acids
- WKST- Food and Energy
- Bacteria in the _____ make vitamin k
Large intestine
- WKST- food and energy
- Where does digestion begin?
Stomach
- WKST- Digestion Process Begins, and Final Digestion and Absorption
- Most chemical digestion takes place in the______
Small intestine
- CLF- digestive system
- Food is pushed through the esophagus to the stomach by waves of muscle contraction known as…
Peristalsis
- WKST- Digestion Process Begins, and Final Digestion and Absorption
- The breakdown of complex food molecules into simpler molecules is ______ digestion
Chemical digestion
- WKST- Digestion Process Begins, and Final Digestion and Absorption
- How do the small intestine and large intestine compare in size?
The large intestine is shorter and longer in diameter than the small intestine
- CLF- digestive system
- What are the names and functions of the two organs that food does not travel through.
Pancreas and liver
- CLF- Digestive system
- Name all the organs that are the MAIN part of your digestive system.
Esophagus, stomach, pancreas, rectum, small intestine, large intestine, liver
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- What is the organ where food moves into after it leaves the stomach?
Small intestine
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- What is the C shaped organ in the digestive system? could this organ do its job as well if the pancreas weren’t present. Why or why not?
The c shaped organ is the duodenum of the small intestines. The duodenum could not do its job as well without the pancreas because the pancreas releases enzymes. Without these enzymes that are being produced chemical digestion wouldn’t be able to happen
- WKST- Digestion Process Begins, and Final Digestion and Absorption
- What is the organ that absorbs food?
Small intestine
- CLF- digestive system
- What are the structures that line the duodenum and what is their function
The structures are villi. Villi produces a long structure for absorption to occur.
- WKST- Food and energy
- What is the organ that almost all chemical digestion takes place
The small intestine
- CLF-Digestive System