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What is the role of the digestive system? - correct answer Getting nutrients into the body and secreting undigested material. Describe the mucosa. - correct answer The innermost layer that nutrients pass through of the gas...

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Biology Exam Digestive System

What is the role of the digestive system? - correct answer Getting nutrients into the
body and secreting undigested material.



Describe the mucosa. - correct answer The innermost layer that nutrients pass
through of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract layers



What is peristalsis? What layer of the GI tract

allow for it? - correct answer Propels food forward. Begins with a lump of food and
stretches portions of the GI tract, causing smooth muscle in front of bolus to relax and the muscle
behind it to contract. Contraction push food forward. Muscularis layer of GI tract allows it.



List and describe the 5 processes of digestion. - correct answer Mechanical
processing and movement: chewing and mixing

Secretion: Fluid, Digestive enzymes and hormones

Bile, acid, alkali, mucus

Digestion: Breaking down food to smallest absorbable units

Absorption: Through mucosa, Into blood or lymph vessels

Elimination: Undigested material eliminated



What structures begin digestion? What structures

end digestion? - correct answer The mouth begins digestion:



Why don't I get food in my lungs and air in my

stomach? - correct answer The Epiglottis keeps the trachea closed when swallowing
so food goes into the esophagus and into the stomach,



What is gastric juice, where is it produced, what is

, its role? - correct answer Gastric Pits lead to gastric glands below the surface of
mucosal layer of stomach. Pepsinogen, Hydrochloric acid (mucus), and fluid that are secreted into glands
are known as gastric juice. Give stomch pH approx 2. Dissolve connective tissue in foods and digest
proteins and peptides into amino acids so they can be absorbed in small intestines.

Hydrochloric acid: Produces a pH of about 2; breaks down large bits of food

Intrinsic factor: Made by same cells that make acid; needed to absorb vitamin B12

Mucus: Protects stomach lining from acid

Pepsinogen: With acid, begins protein breakdown as pepsin



Which part of the digestive system absorbs

nutrients? - correct answer Small Intestines



Which part of the digestive system absorbs water? - correct answer Large Intestines



What is heartburn? - correct answer Lower esphageal sphincter at base of
esophagus opens briefly as food arrives and closes after it passes into stomach. Prevents stomach
content's back into the esophagus. When malfunctions results in acidic stomach fluid into esophagus
known as acid reflux that causes burning sensation (heartburn)



How are the villi of the intestines like the brain,

mitochondria, and aveoli in the lungs? - correct answer Large folds increase the
suface area by more than 500 times which increases ability absorb nutrients, At center of each villi, are
capillaries and small lymph vessel called lacteal which transport nutrients to larger blood vessels and
lymph vessels.



What is the role of the Pancreas? the liver? - correct answer Pancreas: Exocrine
functions, Secretes digestive enzymes and sodium bicarbonate

Liver: Produces bile, Hepatic portal system, Drains blood from the digestive tract to the liver, Metabolic
functions

Storage, synthesis, and chemical processing



What's the difference between an amino acid and

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