Digestion Flashcards

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1
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Ingestion/eating

A

Food is taken in by the body

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Digestion

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Food is broken down

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Absorption

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Digested food passes into the blood stream

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4
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Assimilation

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Using the food in the cells of the body

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5
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Elimination

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Getting rid of undigested food

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Enzymes

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Are chemicals that’s speed up reactions without being used up in the reaction enzymes act on a substrate and breaks it down into a product eg substrate=starch,enzyme=amylase (saliva),product =maltose

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7
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Most chemical digestion happens in

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The small intestine

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8
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Bile

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Make in liver to break down fats

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9
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Pancreas makes

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Digestive juice which contain enzymes

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10
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Gall bladder

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Storage of bile

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Incisors

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biting and cutting
At frou t of mouth 4 upper and 4 lower
Used for biting and cutting

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Canine

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One at each side of incisors
2 upper 2 Lowe
Grasping and tearing food

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Pre molers

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3 at either side of the canine
6 upper 6 lower
Grinding and crushing food

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Molar

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2 at either side of the premolars
4 upper 4 lower
Grinding and crushing food

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15
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Herbivores

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Only eats plants
Very large incisors
Large molar and pre molar to chew grass

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Carnivore

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Omnivore

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Eats plants and meat
Need all the different teeth