Chapter 17- Digestion Flashcards
Heterotropic
Animals
Unable to synthesize their own nutrients
Intracellular digestion
Occurs within the cell, usually in membrane bound vesicles
Extracellular digestion
Digestive process that occurs outside of the cell, within a lumen or a tract
In unicellular organisms, food capture is effected primarily by:
Phagocytosis
When do food vacuoles form?
Immediately after digestion
How does ingestion occur in amoeba
Pseudopods surround and engulf food (phagocytosis) and enclose it in food vacuoles.
digestion in amoeba
Contain digestive enzymes fuse with food vacuole in amoeba and release their digestive enzymes that act upon the nutrients- resulting simpler molecules diffuse into the cytoplasm
Excretion in amoeba
Eliminated from the vacuole
Ingestion in paramecium
Cilia sweep food into the oral groove and cytopharynx- a food vacuole forms around the lower end of the cytopharynx, which breaks off and goes to the anterior of the cell
Digestion in paramecium
Enzymes are secreted into the vacuole and the products diffuse into the cytoplasm
Excretion in paramecium
Solid wastes are expelled at the anal pore.
Physical breakdown
Multicellular organisms– in mouth and churning in digestive tract
Chemical breakdown in invertebrates
Accomplished by enzymatic hydrolysis
Digestion in cnidarians
Both intra and extracellular
Use tentacles to ingest and release particles into cup-like sac
Enzyme secreted into cavity from endodermal cells
Digestion mostly extracellular- but once food is reduced to small fragmets, the gastrodermal cells engulf nutrients and digestion is completed intracellularly.
Undig. food expelled through mouth
Digestion in annelids
One way tract- mouth to anus
Specializedparts
Mouth, pharynx, esophagus, crop (stores food), gizzard (grinds food), intestine (increase surface area- hypholosole) and anus
Soluble food passes thorough walls of small intestine to the blood thru diffusion
Digestion in arthropods
Similar to earthworm. Jaws for chewing and salivary glands to improve food digestion
Human digestive tranct
Oral cavity pharynx esophagus stomach small intestine large intestine the anus
Accessory organs of the digestive tract
Salivary glands,pancreas, liver, gall badder
Oral cavity in human
Mechanical (mastication) and chemical digestion of food begins
Chemical- saliva lubricates food and contains amylase (ptyalin)- hydrolyzes starch to maltose.
Esophagus
Muscular tube leading from the moth to the stomach
Perstalsis
How food is moved down the esophagus
Rhythmic waves of involuntary muscular contractions
Where does the body of the esophagus lie?
Within the thoracic cavity, which is negatively pressured on inhalation.
Abdominal cavity positive pressure gradient
GERD
occurs when pressure gradient favor a continual gastric materials into the esophagus.
Gastroesophageal reflux
How may GERD occur
Spontaneous lower esophageal sphincter relax- not associated with swallowing
Resting pressure of lower esophageal sphincter goes owe gastric baseline pressure
What is the stomach and where is it located
A large muscular organ located in the upper abdomen
What does the stomach do?
Stores partially digested food
What are the walls of the stomach lined by?
Gastric mucosa- which contain glands that secrete mucus