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Digestive System Flashcards

1
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Order of Digestive Tract

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-Mouth
-Pharynx
-Esophagus
-Stomach
-Small intestine
-Large intestine
-Rectum
-Anus

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Accessory Organs

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-Teeth
-Tongue
-Salivary Glands
-Pancreas
-Liver
-Gull Bladder
-appendix

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Mechanical Digestion

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Physical movement breaks down food into small pieces, without changing the food chemically

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Chemical Digestion

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Enzymes and chemicals that break down food into nutrient molecules to be absorbed into the blood stream

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Mouth (Chem&Mech)

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-Chewing food (Mechanical)
-Saliva breaks down food (Chemical)

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Stomach (Chem&Mech)

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-Layers of muscles churn food (Mechanical)
-Gastric juice turns the bolus into chyme (Chemical)

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Small intestine (Chem&Mech)

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-Segmentation (Mechanical)
-Pancreas produces pancreatic juice which is secreted into the duodenum (Chemical)

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Mouth

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Digestion begins

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Pharynx (Throat and Epiglottis)

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-Where both digestive and respiratory system connect

-Flap prevents food from entering the lungs by covering the trachea when swallowing

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Esophagus (Food pipe)

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Contraction and relaxation of muscles in a one way motion (Peristalasis)

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Stomach

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Churning of muscles mixes the food with gastric juice turning the bolus into chyme

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Small intestine

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Breaks down food and then nutrients are absorbed through the wall, into the bloodstream

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Large intestine

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-Absorbs water and vitamins
-removed undigested food

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Rectum

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Temporarily stores feces

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Anus

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Ending, feces leaves the body

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Tongue

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Moves around food in the mouth, mixing it with saliva to form bolus

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Teeth

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-Food is chewed
-Incisor (8) cut
-Canines (4) Tear
-Molars (12) grind and crush food

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Salivary glands

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Produces saliva which contains amylase (Enzyme) which break down starches

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Liver

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produce bile

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20
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Gull bladder

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-A sac that stores and concentrates bile
-secretes into the small intestine

21
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Pancreas

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Produces pancreatic juice which is secreted into the duodenum of the small intestine

22
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Enzymes that breaks down proteins

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-Pepsin
-Trypsin

23
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Enzymes that break down fats

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-Lipase

24
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Enzymes that break down carbs

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-maltase
-amylase

25
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Movement

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Food travels down the digestive tract

26
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Digestion

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Consists of mechanical and chemical breakdown of complex food molecules

27
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Absorption

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The transfer of digested nutrients to the bloodstream

28
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Egestion

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The removal of waste food materials from the body

29
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3 types of salivary glands

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-Partotid
-Submandibular
-Sublingual
(PSS)

30
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Difference between Peristalsis & Segmentation? Where do they occur

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Peristalasis = Moves along food (Esophagus)
Segmentaion = Breaks down food (Small intestine)

31
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How many layers is the stomach made up of? What are their names

A

3 Layers
1. Longitudinal
2. Circular
3. Oblique
(LCO)

32
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What is the food called in the stomach after it has been mixed with gastric juice?

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Chyme

33
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What are 2 sphincters in the stomach called and located?

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Cardiac
-between esophagus and stomach
Pyloric
-between stomach and small intestine
(CP)

34
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Polar substance

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-Contains oppositely changed regions (slightly positive and negative)
-hydrophilic
-will Dissolve in another polar substance
Ex. Water, Ethonal

35
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Non-polar substance

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-does not have a distinct positive and negative regions
-hydrophobic
-will dissolve in another non-polar substance
Ex. Oil, gasoline

36
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Large intestine (Chem&Mech)

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Has neither because it absorbs water

37
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Protease found in the stomach

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Pepsin

38
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Protease that is found in the small intestine

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Trypsin

39
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Where is bile produced AND stored

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-produced in the liver
-stored in the gull bladder

40
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Villi

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Finger-like projections located on the surface of the small intestinal wall

41
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Microvilli (Plural)

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Tiny, brush-border projections found on the surface of cells make up the villi

42
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Small intestine is made up of 3 sections

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  1. Duodenum
  2. Jejunum
  3. ileum
    (Dji)
43
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Intestine 2 main functions

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-Digestions
-Absorption

44
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Why do we need to eat

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-Because food provides our body’s with things we can’t produce

-Helps with growth and development

45
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Where is digestion completed?

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Small intestine

46
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What occurs in the small intestine

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Absorption

47
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What happens when food backs up into the esophagus?

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Causes a reflux of stomach acid and heart burn

48
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Where do nutrients get absorbed during the digestive process?

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-Through the wall of the small intestine into the blood stream
-occurs in the small intestine

49
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Appendix

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a finger-shaped pouch that sticks out from the colon (large intestine)

Biology 2024/25 (6 decks)

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