Digestion in the Stomach Flashcards
two kinds of digestion
mechanical
chemical
essential to increasing amount of food surface area
mechanical digestion
digestive enzymes are responsible
chemical digestion
two phases of chemical digestion
luminal digestion
membranous chemical digestion
luminal digestion uses a process of what
hydrolysis (macromolecule breakdown)
hydrolysis continues in membranous chemical digestion and molecules are broken down into what
most basic components
five components in a meal
carbohydrates
proteins
lipids
vitamins
minerals
made of repeating units of monosaccharides
carbohydrates
made of repeating glucose monosaccharides
starches
simple monosaccharides (glucose) OR multiple monosaccharides linked together
sugars
three kinds of sugars
disaccharides
sucrose
lactose
complex carbohydrates
cellulose
made of repeating amino acid units
proteins
chain of >50 amino acids
protein
chain of <50 amino acids
peptide