Digestion and absorption of food

Question 1

What is digestion

Answer 1

The breaking down of food into smaller proportions

Question 2

What type of mechanical digestion happens in the mouth?

Answer 2

the teeth matriculate the food

Question 3

what type of chemical digestion occurs in the mouth

Answer 3

salivary amylase breaks down starch to maltose

Question 4

how many molars are there in the milk teeth

Answer 4

0

Question 5

how many milk teeth are there

Answer 5

20

Question 6

how many permanent teeth do we have

Answer 6

32

Question 7

what causes cavities

Answer 7

acids from sugars erodes the tooth enamel

Question 8

what is the tube that caries food from the mouth to the stomach?

Answer 8

esophagus

Question 9

peristalisis is?

Answer 9

the movement of food through the alimentry canal by which the the muscles move the food through

Question 10

the mechanical digestion which happens in the stomach is ?

Answer 10

churning

Question 11

the chemical digestion which take palce in the stomach is ?

Answer 11

pepsin and reinin breakes down protein to poly-petites

Question 12

what is excreted in the stomach for digestion

Answer 12

1. mucus
2. pepsin and rennin
3. hydrochloric acid (hcl)

Question 13

pepsin has a ph optimum of?

Answer 13

3.1

Question 14

what is the juice that is the end result of churning?

Answer 14

chyme

Question 15

what happens to fat in the duodenum

Answer 15

fat is emulsified by bile

Question 16

in which organ is bile made?

Answer 16

the liver

Question 17

pancreatic juice is made up of?

Answer 17

1. Lipase
2. Amylase
3. Peptides
4. Proteases(tripsin)

Question 18

what is bile and pancreatic juice soposed to do?

Answer 18

1. emulsify fat and glycerol
2. further break down poly-pepdites
3. further break down the maltose to glucose

Question 19

what is the function of the villius

Answer 19

absorb the nutrients

Question 20

what happens when digestion is finished

what are the end products

Answer 20

fesses