Digestion - Mrs. DeRosa

What organ absorbs water?

Large Intestine

What organ makes pancreatic juice?

Pancreas

What is the digestive enzyme found in gastric juice?

Pepsin

What organ stores bile?

Gallbladder

What are the finger like projections in the small intestine that store nutrients?

Villi

What organ finishes digestion and absorbs nutrients?

Small Intestine

What digests carbohydrates in the mouth?

Saliva

What organ grinds food and digests food chemically and mechanically?

Mouth

Proteins are broken into this molecule:

Amino Acids

What organ stores food temporarily and adds gastric juice?

Stomach.

What organ produces bile?

Liver

What emulsifies fat?

Bile

What prevents food from entering the trachea?

Epiglottis

What connects the pharynx and the stomach?

esophagus

What is the enzyme that breaks down carbohydrates, it is found in pancreatic juice?

Amylase

Heterotroph definiton:

Obtain food from their enviorment

Autotroph definition:

Make their own food

__ is taking in food from the environment..

Ingestion

Mechanical digestion breaks down, how?

Physically

Chemical digestion breaks down, how?

Enzymes

Lipids are broken down by what enzyme?

Lipase

What is the indigestible material that helps move food through the digestive system?

Roughage

What is the enzyme that is released by the salivary glands, which begins the digestion of carbohydrates?

Amylase

Pepsin is secreted by the:

Stomach

Pepsin beings the digestion of:

Proteins

The __ produces hydrochloride acid

Stomach

__ is muscle-like contractions that push food through the digestive system.

Peristalsis

The enzymes found in pancreatic juice are:

protease, lipase, & amylase

The function of bile is to:

Emulsify lipids

An __ is a hole in the digestive lining caused by the production of excess digestive access.

Ulcer

An inflammation of the appendix is called an:

Appendicitis

What is edgestion?

The process of removing undigested or waste material

An accumulation of hardened cholesterol deposit is is associated with the development of

Gallstones

Hydrochloride acid is responsible for the low pH of the contents of the

Stomach

Extracellular example:

Process of breaking down food from outside the cell

The removal of the gallbladder would interrupt the normal flow of?

Bile

Most digestion takes place in the..

Small intestine

A digestive function of the pancreas is the synthesis and secretion of

Protease

Where does peristalsis occur?

Esophagus, Stomach, and Large Intestine

Accumulations of hardened cholesterol deposits form gallstones in what organ?

Gallbladder

In which organ is glucose and amino acids normally aborbed?

Small Intestine

In which structure does the initial hydrolysis of carbohydrates occur?

Mouth

A painful condition resulting from the formation of small stone-like deposits of cholesterol may be treated by removing the

Gallbladder