Chapter 23: Digestion

Question 1

What are the six essential food-processing activities? What are the organs associated with each activity?

Answer 1

1. Ingestion: mouth
2. Propulsion: moving food through the alimentary canal.
3. Mechanical Digestion: mouth and stomach and intestines
4. Chemical Digestion: mouth and stomach and alimentary canal.
5. Absorption: begins in stomach and alimentary canal
6. Defecation: anus

Question 2

Nutrients go to the ___ for storage

Answer 2

Liver

Question 3

At the SC junction, the epithelial changes from _____ to _____.

Answer 3

Stratified squamous to simple columnar

Question 4

Which organ produces bile? Which organ is the storehouse for bile? Which organ is in charge of feeding enzymes into early part of the Duodenum?

Answer 4

Liver: produces Bile
Gallbladder: storehouse for bil
Pancreas: feeding enzymes into the early part of duodenum.