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Chapter 17- Digestion Flashcards

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Heterotropic

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Animals

Unable to synthesize their own nutrients

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Intracellular digestion

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Occurs within the cell, usually in membrane bound vesicles

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Extracellular digestion

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Digestive process that occurs outside of the cell, within a lumen or a tract

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In unicellular organisms, food capture is effected primarily by:

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Phagocytosis

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When do food vacuoles form?

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Immediately after digestion

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How does ingestion occur in amoeba

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Pseudopods surround and engulf food (phagocytosis) and enclose it in food vacuoles.

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digestion in amoeba

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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

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Excretion in amoeba

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Eliminated from the vacuole

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Ingestion in paramecium

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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

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Digestion in paramecium

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Enzymes are secreted into the vacuole and the products diffuse into the cytoplasm

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Excretion in paramecium

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Solid wastes are expelled at the anal pore.

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Physical breakdown

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Multicellular organisms– in mouth and churning in digestive tract

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Chemical breakdown in invertebrates

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Accomplished by enzymatic hydrolysis

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Digestion in cnidarians

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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

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Digestion in annelids

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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

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Digestion in arthropods

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Similar to earthworm. Jaws for chewing and salivary glands to improve food digestion

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Human digestive tranct

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Oral cavity
pharynx
esophagus
stomach
small intestine
large intestine 
the anus
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Accessory organs of the digestive tract

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Salivary glands,pancreas, liver, gall badder

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Oral cavity in human

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Mechanical (mastication) and chemical digestion of food begins
Chemical- saliva lubricates food and contains amylase (ptyalin)- hydrolyzes starch to maltose.

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Esophagus

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Muscular tube leading from the moth to the stomach

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Perstalsis

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How food is moved down the esophagus

Rhythmic waves of involuntary muscular contractions

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Where does the body of the esophagus lie?

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Within the thoracic cavity, which is negatively pressured on inhalation.
Abdominal cavity positive pressure gradient

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GERD

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occurs when pressure gradient favor a continual gastric materials into the esophagus.

Gastroesophageal reflux

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How may GERD occur

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Spontaneous lower esophageal sphincter relax- not associated with swallowing

Resting pressure of lower esophageal sphincter goes owe gastric baseline pressure

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What is the stomach and where is it located

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A large muscular organ located in the upper abdomen

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What does the stomach do?

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Stores partially digested food

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What are the walls of the stomach lined by?

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Gastric mucosa- which contain glands that secrete mucus

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What does mucus in the stomach do?

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Protects the stomach lining from the harshly acidic juices present in the stomach.

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Glands in the gastic mucosa also secrete

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Pepsin, a protein hydrolyzing enzyme, and HCl, which kills bacteria and breaks down food and also activates proteins

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Chief cells

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Synthesize pepsinogen

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Parietal cells

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Synthesize and release HCl and intrinsic factor

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Churning of the stomach produces:

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an acidic semifluid mixture and partially digested food known as chyme0 which passes into the first segment of the small intestine, the duidenum, thorugh the pyloric sphincter

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Chemical digestion is completed in

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The small intestine

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The small intestine is divided into

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duodenum
jejunum
ileum

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The small intestine is highly adapted to:

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Absorption

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Villi

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Fingerlike projection that increase the surface area of the small intestine that extend out of the intestinal wall.

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What do the villi contain?

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Capillaries and lacteals

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Amino acids and monosaccharides pass through the villi walls into the:

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capillary suystem

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Large fatty acids and glycerold pass into the

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Lacteals and are then reconverted into fats

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What nutrients are actively absorbed and which ones are passively absorbed?

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Actively- glucose and amino acids

Passively- rest of them

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Where does most of the digestion occur in the small intestine?

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the duodenum, where secretions of the intestinal glands, pancreas, liver, and gall bladder mix together with the acidic chyme entering from the stomach.

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Lipase

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Secreted by the intesinal mucosa- for fat digestion

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Aminopeptidases

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Secreted by the intesinal mucosa- for polypeptide digestion

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Disaccharideases

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Secreted by the intesinal mucosa- for maltose, lactose and sucrose digestion

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Lactase

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Disaccharidase- breaks down lactose or milk sugar

present in infants

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Parietal cell secrete

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HCl and intrinsic factor

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Gastrin

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Produced in the G cells of the duodenum, stimulates HCl, histamine, and pepsinogen secretion as well as increase gastric blood flow.

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What happens after gastrin stimulates parietal cells

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Release of HCl, which denatures proteins and activates digestive enzymes

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Intrinsic factor

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absorption of vitamin B12

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Cholecystokinin

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Produced in the I cells of the duodenal and jejunal mucosa

Involved in stimulation of pancreatic enzymes stores in the S cells of the upper intestine

Stimulates the secretion of bicarbonate-containing substances from the pancreas and inhibits gastric emptying and gastric acid production

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Liver

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produces bile

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gall bladder

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stores bile before releasing it to the small intestine

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What does bile do?

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does NOT contain enzymes, it emulsified fats, breaking down large globules into small droplets.

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Why is fat emulsified?

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It exposes fats to a greater surface area to the action of pancreatic lipase.

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If there is not bile

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Then fats cannot by digested

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Other functions of the liver:

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Storage of glycogen, conversion of ammonia to urea, protein synthesis, detoxification and cholesterol metabolism.

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Pancreas

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Produces amylase, trypsin and lipase

Releases chymotrypsin and enterokinase, which cleaves chymotrypsin to make trypsin

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What does trypsin do

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cleaves and activates other zymogens

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How does the pancreas neutralize acidic chyme?

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It secretes a bicarbonate-rich juice

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Large intestine

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Absorbs salts and water not already absorbed by small intestine.

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Rectum

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Stores feces before elimination though anus

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Plants and digestion

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Have no digestion system

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Intracellular digestion in plants

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Stores insoluble polymers, starches, lipid, and proteins in the cell

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Starch

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Found in seeds, stems and root
principal storage food
Is a glucose polysaccharide

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When nutrients are required in plants,what happens?

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Hydrolysis (enzyme) break down storage polymers into simpler molecules

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Extracellular digestion in plants

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Used by fungi

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Rhizoids

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In bread mold
Saprophyte lives on dead organic material that secretes material int othe bread
Digestion produces simple and soluble products that are absorbed by diffusion.

68
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Fungi

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Heterotrophic- get nutrients from the environment

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