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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 indigested food

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Enzymes

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Chemicals that speed up reactions without being used up in the reaction

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Bile

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Made in liver to break down fats

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Pancreas

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Makes digestive juices which contain enzymes

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Small intestine

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Is where most of the digestion happens

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Physical digestion

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Happens in the mouth with teeth and 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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Make 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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Waste 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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Gallbladder

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Storage of bile

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Incisors

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At the front of the mouth, 4 upper and 4 lower, used for biting and cutting food

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Canine

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One at either side of your incisors, 2 upper and 2 lower, they grasp and tear food

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Pre-molar

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3 at either side of the canine, 6 upper and 6 lower, grind and crush food

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Molars

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2 at either side of the pre-molars, 4 upper and 4 lower, grind and crush food

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Herbivore

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Only eats plants, very large incisors, large molars and pre-molars to chew grass

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Carnivore

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Only eats meat, large canine teeth, use the teeth to catch and tear their prey

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Omnivore

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Eat both plants and meat, need all the different types of teeth

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