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Digestion Flashcards

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Parts of Digestion

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  1. Mechanical - breaking up food into small pieces
  2. Chemical - breakign down polymers with enzymes into small pieces
  3. Absorption - taking nutrients up into cells
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Alimentary canal

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  • path of food through the body
  • mouth - pharynx - esophagus - stomach small intestine - large intestine - rectum
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Mouth

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  • Mechanical and chemical digestion begins here
  • the enzyme salivary amylase in saliva begins starch digestion
  • tongue and teeth break down food mechanically
  • incisors for cutting, canines for tearing, molars for grinding
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Where does starch digestion begin?

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Peristalsis

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  • wavelike muscular action conducted by smooth msulce
  • esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
  • involuntary contractions
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salivary amylase

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  • pytalin
  • breaks starch into maltose
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Esophagus

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  • NO digestion occurs here
  • transports food from throat to stomach
  • peristalsis
  • foods is directed away from the windpipe by the epiglottis, a flap of cartilage in the back of the pharynx(throat)
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Epiglottis

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a flap of carilage in the back of the pharynx(throat)

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Pharynx

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throat

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Stomach

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  • Mechanical and chemical digestion
  • Protein digestion begins here
  • thick, muscular wall churns food mechanically
  • gastric glands produce hydrochloric acid and the enzyme pepsin
  • acidic, low pH(2-3) necessary from pepsin; destroys ingested microoragnisms
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Hydrochloric Acid

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  • begins the breakdown of muscle(meat)
  • activates the inactive enzyme pepsinogen to becom pepsin, which digests protein
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Pepsinogen

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inactive enzyme activiated by hydrochloric acide to become pepsin, which breaks down protein

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Rennin

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aids the digestion of the protein in milk

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Cardiac Sphincter

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  • at the top of the stomach
  • keeps acidified food in the stomach from backing up into the esophagus and burning it
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Pyloric Sphincter

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  • bottom of stomach
  • keeps food inthe stomach long enough to be digested
  • Through it, Chyme enters the duodenum
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Where does protein digestion begin?

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Stomach

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What does excessive acid do?

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  • cause an ulcer to form in the esophagus, stomach, or duodenum
  • another common cause of ulcers is Heliobacter pylori, bacterium
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Duodenum

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  • 1st 10in of small intestine
  • Chyme enters the duodenum through the pyloric sphincter
  • All digestion is completed here
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Chyme

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partially digested food in the stomach

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Small Intestine

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  • All digestion is completed(duodenum) and nutrients are absorbed here
  • pH - 8
  • intestinal enzymes are amylases, proteases, lipases, nucleases
  • Pancreatic amylases are secreted in here
  • glands produce aminopeptidases for polypeptide digestion and disaccharidases
  • Peptidases(ex/ trypsin, chymotrypsin) continue to break down proteins
  • Millions of villi line the small intestine and absorb all the nutrients from digested food
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Villus(pl. Villi)

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  • fingerlike projections that line the small intestine and absorb all nutrients from digested food
  • each contains:
    • Capillaires - absorbs amino acids, vitamins, monosaccharides directly into the bloodstream
    • lacteal - absorbs fatty acids and glycerol into the lymphatic system
  • have microscopic appendages called microvilli that further enhance the rate of absorption
  • epithelial cells
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Lacteal

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Absorbs fatty acids and glycerol into the lymphatic system

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Nuclease

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Hydrolyzes nucleic acids into nucleotides

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Lipase

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breaks down fats

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Pancreas

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  • Secretes Peptidases, protein-digesting enzymes, into small intestine
  • Pancreatic proteases are stored in inactive froms called zymogens
    • prevents damage to pancreatic tissues that occurs if proteases are prematurely active
  • Produces amylas, trypsin, chymotrypsin
  • Alkaline range pH; bicarbonate ion neutralizes acidity of the chyme
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Peptidases/Proteases

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Pepsin

Trypsin

Chymotrypsin

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Amylase

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breaks down starch

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Liver

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  • Produces bile
  • Sends bile to the gallbladder until its release into the small intestine
  • Breaks down and recycles red blood cells
  • Detoxifies blood - removes alcohol and drugs
  • Produces cholesterol for structure of cell membranes
  • Produces urea from protein metabolism
  • Strorage of iron and vitamin B
  • Regulate blood glucose levels
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erythrocytes

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Red blood cells

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Hepatic Portal Vein

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Delivers glucose and other monosaccharides absorbed in the small intestine during digestion to liver

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Gluconeogenesis

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  • When liver syntesizes glucose from noncarbohydrate precurors when blood glucose levels are low
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What processes glucose-rich blood?

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  • Liver converts excess glucose to glycogen for storage in the liver
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What happens when blood has a low glucose concentration?

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  • liver converts glycogen into glucose and releases it into the blood, restorign blood glucose levels to normal
  • gluconeogenesis
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Zymogens

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  • Pancreatic proteases in inactive forms
  • activated after secretion when they are cleaved by another protease
  • prevetns dame to the pancreatic tissues that occurs if proteases are prematurely active
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Bile

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  • Produced in liver; Stored in gallbladder
  • emulsifies fats in small intestine
  • pH 11; neutralizes chyme entering the small intestine
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Gallbladder

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  • Stores bile
  • Can function without
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Large Intestine/Colon

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  • No digestion
  • Egestion
  • Vitamin production - bacteria symbionts livign in the colon produce the B vitamins, vitamin K, and folic acid
  • Reabsorption of water
    • Constipation
    • Diarrhea
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Egestion

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  • Large intestine
  • removal of undigested waste
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Constipation

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Too much water is reabsorbed from large intestine into body

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Diarrhea

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Too little water absorbed back into body

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Rectum

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  • Egestion
  • last 7-8 inches of the gastrointestinal tract
  • Stores feces until release through anus

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