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Digestion Flashcards

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Ingestion/eating

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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 bloodstream

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Assimilation

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Using the food in the cells of the body

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Elimination

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Getting rid of undigested food

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Chemical digestion

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Enzymes are chemicals that speed up reaction without being used up in the reaction
Enzymes act on a substrate and breaks it down into a product
Example: substrate =starch, enzyme= amylase (saliva) product = maltose (sugar)

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Chemical digestion

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Amylase in mouth
Enzymes in stomach
Most chemical digestion happens in small intestine
Bike made in liver to break down fats
Pancreas makes digestive juices which contain enzymes

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Physical digestion

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Taking large pieces of food and breaking them down into smaller pieces happen in the
mouth (teeth)
stomach (churning)

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Mouth

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Physical and chemical digestion

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Oesophagus

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Brings food from mouth to stomach

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Liver

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Makes bile

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Stomach

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Physical and chemical digestion

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Pancreas

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Makes digestive juices

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Small intestine

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Most chemical digestion

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Large intestine

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Water reabsorption

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Rectum

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Stores undigested food

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Anus

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Undigested food passes out

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P

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Gall bladder

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Storage of bile

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Incisor

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Biting and cutting

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Canine

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Grasping and tearing

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Pre molar

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Grinding and crushing

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Molar

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Grinding and crushing

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