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1
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What is digestion

A

mechanical and chemical breaking down of food into particles small enough for the body to absorb

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What is absorption

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when the small molecules pass from the lumen of the gut into the blood or lymph

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what is the difference between chemical and mechanical digestion

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mechanical= the physical breaking down of injested food by things like teeth or stomach thurning
Chemical= the use of the bodys hydrolytic enzymes and HCl to break down food

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What is a hydrolytic enzyme

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an enzyme that breaks down macromolecules by adding water

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what is the enzyme in saliva

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Salivary amylase

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What is a substrate of salivary amylase and what are the products

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substrate is starch
products are maltose
(starch+h2o=maltose)

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What is peristalsis

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rhythmic waves of muscle contractions that pushes food down the esophagus

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What are 3 functions of the stomach

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1) stores food until small intestine is ready for another small quantity
2) churns the food with its muscles mixing it with gastric secretions
3) produces gastric juices containing HCl

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9
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what does HCl do in the stomach

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kills bacteria
breaks down connective tissue
creates an acidic environment which activates the digestive enzyme pepsin

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what does pepsin do in the stomach

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breaks down proteins into peptides

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How is pepsin made

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gastric juices produced by gastric gland in stomach consist of HCl, pepsinogen, and water. The HCl mixes with pepsinogen to make the active enzyme pepsin

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12
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What is the Pharynx

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region between mouth and esophagus where swallowing occurs

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13
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what does the epiglottis do

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is a flap of tissue that covers the opening to the trachea when swallowing

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what is the cardiac sphincter

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circular muscle that can open and close the control movement of food into stomach from esophagus.

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What is the esophagus

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a long muscular tube that uses perstalsis to send food from mouth to stomach

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16
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what is pepsinogen

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a precursor molecule of gastric juice that forms pepsin when mixed with HCl

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17
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Where does the majority of digestion take place

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In the duodenum

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18
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3 parts of the small intestine are

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duodenum
jejenum
ilium

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what controls the flow of material into the duodenum

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pyloric sphincter at bottom of stomach, opens periodically to empty some chyme into duodenum

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20
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the material the enters the duodenum is called

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chyme

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what is the funtion of the duodenum

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secretions from liver (bile) and pancreas break down fats and peptides

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22
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what does the liver produce for the duodenum

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bile

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23
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what do bile salts do

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emulsifying agent for fats to break up

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24
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what sodium compound does pancreatic juice contain

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NaHCO3

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25
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what does NaHCO3 do

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Neutralize acid chyme and makes small intestine pH basic

26
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what 3 enzymes do pancreatic juice contain

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Pancreatic amylase
trypsin
Lipase

27
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what is the function of pancreatic amylase

A

digest starch to maltose

28
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what is the function of trypsin

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digests pepsin to peptides

29
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what is the function of lipase

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digests fat to fatty acids and glycerol

30
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what are two important intestinal juice enzymes and their funtions are

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Peptidases: degest pepsin to amino acids
Maltose: digests maltose to glucose

31
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where does absorption take place

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across each villus into blood and lymph vessels

32
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is absorption passive? what does it require?

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-can happen passively or when activates
-active transport requires ATP

33
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Where do sugars and amino acids go when absorbed

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into the blood via capillaries

34
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where do glycerol and fatty acids go when absorbed

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recombined into lipids and enter lacteal (leads to lymph system)

35
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what is the function of the hepatic portal

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blood vessels from velli merge to hepatic portal vein which carries nutrients to the liver

36
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what are 6 functions of the liver

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-produce bile
-keeps blood glucose constant
-detoxifies blood
-destroys old RBCs
produces urea (deamination of AAs)
-makes blood protiens from AAs

37
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what is the main different function of the large intestine from the small

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the large does not absorb nutrients like the small but instead absorbs water.

38
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what is the main bacteria in the large intestine

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e.coli

39
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where is gastrin released from and why

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from the gastric gland in upper stomach
it perfroms secretion of gastric juices (pepsinogen and HCl)

40
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what are carbs broken into

A

glucose

41
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what are fats broken into

A

glycerol+fatty acids

42
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what are proteins broken into

A

AAs

43
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what are the two sphincters at the top and bottom of the stomach

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pylroic sphincter (bottom)
cardiac sphincter (top)

44
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what substance does the stomach digest

A

proteins (breaks them down into smaller chains of amino acids (peptides))

45
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what are 2 pancreatic secretions

A

pancreatic juice
Insulin and glucagon

46
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what is the function of e coli in the large intestine.

A

break donw indigestable foods, produces vitamins, AAs and other growth factors that get absorbed by the colon

47
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what blood vessels do products of digestion enter

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most of the digestive process enters the capillary system, fats and fat soluble nutrients diffuse into the lymphatic vessels

48
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what problems would occur if the liver stopped functioning

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blood woulf become toxic
fats cant be broken down (no bile)
blood glucose would not be constant
plasma protien + cholesterol would not be produced

49
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Carb digestion

A

Mouth: salivary amylose breaks down starch to maltose
-Pancreatic amylose does the same
-Intestinal glands produce maltose that digests maltose to glucose
-glucose absorbed by blood vessels

50
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protein digestion

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-pepsin in stomach breaks down protein into polypeptide
-trypsin breaks polypeptide into a peptide
-peptidases from intestinal land break peptides into amino acids
-AAs are absorbed into bloodstream thru villi

51
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Fat digestion

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-enters duodenum where bile salts break fat down into droplets
-fat droplets are broken into glycerol and fatty acids by lipase in pancreatic juice
-glycerol and fatty acids are absorbed by lacteals and enter lymphatic system

52
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Salivary amylase breaks down what to what

A

starch to maltose

53
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pepsin breaks down what to what

A

proteins to peptides

54
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peptidase breaks down what to what

A

peptides to amino acids

55
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maltose breaks down what to what

A

maltose to glucose

56
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lipase breaks down what to what

A

fats to glycerol/fatty acids

57
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trypsin breaks down what to what

A

polypeptides to peptides

58
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pancreatic amylose breaks down what to what

A

starch to maltose

59
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What part covers the trachea when swallowing

A

epiglottis

60
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What is the movement of the esophagus when swallowing called

A

peristalsis

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