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Digestion Flashcards

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What is digestion?

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Food broken down from insoluble pieces to soluble pieces

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What is ingestion?

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Food taken into the mouth

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What is absorption?1

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Soluble substances that are absorbed into the blood stream

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What is assimilation?

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Soluble products taken into the cells and used

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What is egestion?

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Removal of waste out the anus

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What are enzymes?

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Speeds up chemical reaction without being used up

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What is amylase?

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Breaks down starch to glucose

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What is protease?

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Breaks down protein into amino acids

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What is lipase?

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Breaks down fat into fatty acids and glycerol

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What happens in the mouth?

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Digestion begins

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What happens in the oesophagus?

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Food is pushed along this tube to the stomach

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What is peristalsis?

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Muscular contraction and relaxation moving the food through the digestive system

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What happens in the stomach?

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Food is mechanically digested by the constant muscle contractions

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What does hydrochloride acid do?

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Maintains the correct pH for the protease enzyme to work and kills any bacteria

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What is the first part of the small intestine called?

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Duodenum

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What is made in your liver?

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Bile

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What is the gall bladder?

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Where bile is stored after it is made in the liver

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What does bile do?

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Breaks oil droplets into an emulsion

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What is emulsion?

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Formed when fat is broken down into droplets which increases the surface area allowing the enzymes to function

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What is the pancreas?

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Contains protease, amylase, lipase

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What is the ileum?

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Where digestion is completed

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What is absorption?2

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The movement of digested food molecules from the intestine to the blood

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What are villi?

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Finger like projections which increase the surface area for absorption

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What are micro villi?

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Surrounds villi to increase the surface area further

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What is the wall like?

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Very thin

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What is left in the large intestine?

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A wet mixture of indigested fibre, bacteria and dead cells

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What is reabsorption?

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In the large intestine water is re absorbed back in the blood

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What does indigested food need?

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Fibre to help it move smoothly along the large intestine

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What is the remaining called?

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Faeces

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Where is the faeces stored?

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The rectum

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What is egestion?

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The removal of undigested material from the the body through the anus

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What is excretion?

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The removal of toxic metabolic waste substances produced through chemical reactions in the body

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