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Digestive system Flashcards

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Digestive System

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Ingestion, Digestion, Egestion

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Ingestion

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Food intake

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Digestion

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Breaking down of ingested particle into molecules that can be absorbed

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Egestion

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Elimination of indigestible material

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Two categories of digestive organs

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Alimentary canal, Accessory organs

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Alimentary Canal

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Gastrointestinal tract (GI) includes food tract

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Accessory organs

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Organs that aid in digestion but are designed as that pathway for food (though teeth, liver, gallbladder, pancreas

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Amylase

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Saliva’s starch digesting enzyme…

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Salivary glands

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make saliva

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Esophagus

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digestive tract from mouth to stomach

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Peristalsis

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Muscle contraction of esophagus

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Stomach

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Muscular organ that uses digestive enzymes and hydrochloric acid to break food down into incompletely digested food

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Stomach lining secrets…

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mucous to protect it from acids

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Pancreas and Gall bladder release more…

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enzymes into small intenstines

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Small intestine is where…

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Most of absorption occurs in digestion

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Small intestine has…

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Villi

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Villi

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provide large surface area of capillaries for absorption of nutrients

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Large intestine

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where indigestible food proceeds to and water gets absorbed from

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waste is then passed through

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rectum and then anus

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Ruminants

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(cows) consume large amounts of vegetation so have several stomach chambers that store CUD that is regurgitated and chewed again

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Many invertebrates have this for digesting

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Crop, and organs that stores food until it is processed for absorption

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Some animals only have… for digestion

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sac-like digestive cavity

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