digest quest

Question 1

Alcohol and absorption

Answer 1

You absorb 20 per cent of alcohol into your bloodstream through your stomach and the rest into your bloodstream through your small intestine.

Question 2

Rennin curdles milk protein

Answer 2

rennin, protein-digesting enzyme that curdles milk by transforming caseinogen into insoluble casein;

Question 3

What is food called that has been churned down to a liquid state in the stomach

Answer 3

The stomach muscles churn and mix the food with digestive juices that have acids and enzymes

By the time food is ready to leave the stomach, it has been turned into a thick liquid called chyme (kime).

Question 4

Pepsin is responsible for commencing the digestion of what food group?

Answer 4

pepsin is the principal enzyme involved in protein digestion. It breaks down proteins into smaller peptides and amino acids that can be easily absorbed in the small intestine

Question 5

What substance does the liver remove?

Answer 5

The liver removes excess glucose (sugar) from the bloodstream and stores it as glycogen. As needed, it can convert glycogen back into glucose.

Question 6

What part of the large intestine does the ileum empty its contents into?

Question 7

What is the last part of the colon called? (7)

Question 8

What alkaline liquid is stored in the gall bladder?

Question 9

What sphincter is responsible for controlling the entry of food into the stomach?

Question 10

What digestive organ receives the bolus from the pharynx? (

Question 11

The jejunum belongs to what part of the digestive system?

Question 12

A chemical catalyst

Question 13

A disorder of the digestive system in which liver cells are badly damaged or destroyed

Question 14

The first part of the small intestine

Question 15

Inflammation of the colon

Question 16

Where does the digestion of carbohydrates begin?

Question 17

three parts small intestine

Question 18

A layer of the stomach that supports the alimentary canal (

Question 19

What stores the bile until it is needed? (

Question 20

What cells are found inside the liver? (

Question 21

What is the end product of carbohydrate digestion

Question 22

What part of the digestive system is responsible for getting rid of waste?

Question 23

What term is used to describe wave like contractions and relaxations of muscles that occur throughout the digestive tract? (

Question 24

An enzyme contained within pancreatic juice

Question 25

What enzyme divides maltose into glucose

Question 26

What organ stores excess glucose?

Question 27

What pushes the bolus down into the oesophagus?

Question 28

What enzyme coagulates milk in infants?

Question 29

What is produced by the liver?

Question 30

What digestive enzyme starts the breakdown of proteins

Question 31

What digestive enzyme Split polypeptides into amino acids

Question 32

What digestive enzyme Kills bacteria present in food

Question 33

What digestive enzyme Split sucrose into glucose and fructose

Question 34

What digestive enzyme End product of carbohydrate digestion

Question 35

What digestive enzyme Starts the digestion of carbohydrates

Question 36

What digestive enzyme End products of fat digestion

Question 37

What digestive enzyme Splits peptones into polypeptides

Question 38

What digestive enzyme Split maltose into glucose

Question 39

What digestive enzyme Split lipids into fatty acids & glycerol

Question 40

1. What enzyme starts the digestion of proteins in the stomach?
   a) Pepsin
   b) Trypsin
   c) Maltase
   d) Hydrochloric acid

Question 41

What is the first organ of digestion?

Question 41

3. What controls the entry of food into the stomach?

Question 42

4. What is the first organ of digestion?

Question 43

What is the function of lipase?

Question 44

7. Where is the pancreas located?

Question 45

9. Which one of the following is not part of the large intestine?
   a) Caecum
   b) Ileum
   c) Appendix
   d) Colon

Question 45

8. Which one of the following substances is stored in the liver?

Question 46

10. What is the function of the gall bladder?
    a) To store bile
    b) To produce heat
    c) To produce enzymes for digestion
    d) To metabolise protein