digestive quiz

Question 1

what are the salivary glands?

Answer 1

parotid gland, sublingual gland, submandibular gland

Question 2

ducts from liver/gallbladder to duodenum

Answer 2

liver produces bile—>bile leaves liver through common hepatic duct—>bile enters duodenum through bile duct

when digestion is not happening, bile backs up into the cystic duct and enters the gallbladder

Question 3

secretion of cells in stomach

Answer 3

gastric glands of the mucosa secrete HCl and hydrolytic enzymes. mucosal glands also secrete viscous mucus that helps prevent the stomach from being digested by enzymes

Question 4

secretion of cells in pancreas

Answer 4

pancreas produces hormones (insulin & glucagon

pancreas has an exocrine secretion of many hydrolytic enzymes, secreted into the duodenum through the pancreatic ducts

Question 5

regions of large intestine (left, up - right, down)

Answer 5

cecum—>ascending colon—>right colic flexure—>transverse colon—>left colic flexure—>descending colon—>sigmoid colon—>rectum—>anal canal

Question 6

simple columnar epithelia in GI tract

Answer 6

gastric pits & glands, duodenum of small intestine

Question 7

stratified squamous epithelium in GI tract

Answer 7

esophagus-stomach junction

Question 8

subdivisions of small intestine

Answer 8

duodenum, jejunum, ileum