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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Enzymes

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Are chemicals that speed up reactions 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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Phisical digestion

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It happens in the mouth with teeth and in the stomach with churring

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Chemical digestion

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Involves the use of chemicals called enzymes to break down food

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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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Gall bladder

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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 the incisors.
2 upper and 2 lower. 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 premolars.
4 upper and 4 lower.
Grind and crush
food.
The teeth an animal has depends on what it ea

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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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Eats plants and meat
Need all of the different tee