Test- Digestive System Flashcards
- Where does digestion of carbohydrates start?
Mouth
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- What carbohydrate helps your digestive system function even though your body cannot digest it?
Fiber
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- What substance must be present in the stomach for pepsin to work best?
Hydrochloric acid
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- When chyme enter the small intestine…
Enzymes are absorbed, a large amount of chyme is present, an acid neutralizes basic chyme solution, all occur, none occur
None occur
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- One of the roles of the __________ is to prepare waste material for elimination.
Large intestine
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- About half the different ____________ that make up proteins are made inside the body.
Amino acids
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- The breakdown of complex food molecules into simpler molecules is mechanical digestion.
False, chemical digestion
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- What is the organ that’s connected to the gall bladder and above the stomach and it’s function?
It is the liver, produces bile to break down fat into smaller particles
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- What is the name of the organ that gets food right after the stomach? Could that organ perform its function without the organ that is a long, gland behind the stomach?
The organ that gets food right after the stomach is the duodenum. The pancreas is a long gland behind the stomach that produces enzymes. Without those enzymes chemical digestion couldn’t be completed. Another organ is the small intestine and that would be unable to absorb nutrient molecules into the bloodstream
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- What is the name of the organ connected to the liver and right in front of the liver called and what’s the function of it?
That organ is the gall bladder. It stores the bile produced by the liver and passes the bile through a tube in the small intestine to aid in the digestion of fat particles
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- What is the name of the organ through which food is absorbed.
The small intestine
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