Unit D Body Systems Flashcards
What is an antigen?
They are the markers.
What is an antibody?
Are the fighters
What is bile?
Bile emulsifies fat so lipases can then break it apart. That is physical digestion.
What is chyme?
Is the state food travels as until the large intestines
What are cofactors?
An inorganic ion that helps an enzyme combine with a substrate.
What is an erythrocytes?
A red blood cell
What are lacteals?
They are the spot fat gets absorbed
What is a leukocyte?
A white blood cell
What is a phagocytosis?
It the process by which a white blood cell engulfs and chemically destroys a microbe.
What are villi?
They are small finger- like projections that extend into the small intestine to increase surface area for absorption.
What macronutrient is linked to heart disease?
Fats/ lipids are linked to heart disease.
What is the function of enzymes?
Enzymes will break macronutrients into useable forms. They make this process fast.
What are the digestive enzymes? Where are they found? Where are they released? What nutrients do they break down.
Carbohydrases- are found in the mouth. They are also released by the pancreas into the small intestines. They break down carbohydrates.
Proteases- first released into the stomach and later the pancreas releases more into the small intestines. They break down proteins.
Lipases- bile is made in the liver, stored in the gallbladder and released in the small intestines. The pancreas releases lipases into the small intestines to break down fat.
What is cellulose important for?
Cellulose cannot be digested by human because we don’t have the digestive enzyme, but will scrub our intestines.
What does a carbohydrate break down into?
It breaks down into sugars or monosaccharides.
What do proteins break down into?
Amino acids
What do fats break down into?
They break down into glycerol and three fatty acids.
What does the iodine test test for?
It tests for starches/ carbs and will turn from yellow to a blue- black colour.
What does the Benedict’s solution test for?
It tests for simple sugars. Blue is a negative test and a positive test will be many different colours.
What does the Biuret test test for?
It tests for proteins. A negative test will be blue which means that there is no proteins and a positive test will be pink or purple and that means it has proteins present.
What does a translucent test test for?
This test tests for the presence of fat. If there is a grease stain then there is fat, if there is no grease stain then there is no fat
What is ingestion?
It is the taking in of nutrients
What is digestion?
The breakdown of complex organic molecules into smaller components by enzymes.
What is absorption?
The transport of digested nutrients in to the cells of the body.
What is egestion?
The removal of wastes.
What is the path food follows through the digestive tract and what are each of the functions?
Mouth- physical and chemical breakdown of food.
Pharynx- passage from mouth to the esophagus.
Esophagus- use peristalsis to push the food into the stomach past the LES.
Stomach- physically digest ( churns food)and chemically digests proteins.
Small intestines- chemical digestion from enzymes from the pancreas, gallbladder, liver. Absorption happens here of monosaccharides, amino acids, glycerol and fatty acids.
Large intestines- absorption of water, vitamins, and minerals.
What is the salivary glands?
They secrete salivary amylase into the mouth.
What does the liver do?
It produces bile.
What does the gallbladder do?
It will store the bile that the liver makes.
What does the pancreas do?
It will produce carbohydrases, lipases, and protease and then secrete them into the small intestine.