Digestiom Flashcards
Ingestion/eating
Food is taken in by the body
Digestion
Food is taken down
Absorption
Digested food passes into the blood stream
Assimilation
Using the food in the cells or body
Elliminarion
Getting rid of undigested food
Enzymes
Involve the use of chemicals called enzymes to break down food
Enzymes are chemicals that speed up reactions without being used up in the reaction
Enzymes act on a substrate and breaks it down into a produc
Example: substrate = starch, enzyme = amylase(saliva), product =maltose(sugar)
Bile
Make in liver to break down fats
Pancreas makes
Digestion juices with contain enzymes
Ohisical
Ohisical digestion happens in the mouth(teeth) stomach(churning)
Mouth
Puis la nd chemical digesyion
Osteoporosis
Brings food from mouth to stomach
Liver
Makes bike
Stomach
Phisicl and che,ical digestion
Pancreas
Makes digestive juices
Small intesion
Most chemila digetione