Organ Functions
My muscles work in three ways to churn and mix your food bolus.
What is the stomach?
This 'organ' is a calcified mass that physically chop food into smaller pieces.
What are the teeth?
I am the thick clear liquid that starts minimal chemical digestion in the mouth.
What is saliva?
I am the storage tank for food that expands and shrinks based on how much food is present.
What is the stomach?
This is the formal name for eating food.
What is ingestion?
Two of the four categories of microorganisms that make up our microbiome?
What is. . .any combination of bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi?
I absorb 90% of the water to dry out your chyme.
What is the large intestine (& colon)?
I help regulate blood sugar and release important digestive enzymes.
What is the pancreas?
DAILY DOUBLE
The majority component of pancreatic juice are these types of enzymes.
I am a highway from your mouth to your stomach.
What is the esophagus?
This process eliminates all feces from our bodies.
What is defecation?
An imbalance of our microbiome could lead to. . .
What is diarrhea, mood swings, large amounts of gas, lower mental capacity, development of food allergies, or using more ATP?
I stored concentrated bile when there is no food present in the small intestine.
What is the gallbladder?
I am the part of the GI tract where you have villi to increase your surface area.
What is the small intestine?
I am the main yellow-green liquid that is secreted into the stomach to start digestion of proteins.
What is gastric juice?
I am the long tube that creates the middle of your abdomen.
What are the small intestines?
This are the two main areas where mechanical breakdown occurs.
What are the mouth and stomach?
Also occurs in the small intestine as segmentation.
What is a fecal microbiota transplant or FMT?
I move your food through both peristalsis and segmentation.
What is the small intestine?
I make bile, a green-ish digestive liquid.
What is the liver?
This enzyme is mostly functional in the stomach gastric acid.
What is pepsin?
I am the part of your GI tract that surrounds the entire abdominopelvic cavity.
What is the large intestine?
This process includes both segmentation and peristalsis.
What is propulsion?
Our bacteria make these really two important vitamins.
What are vitamin B and vitamin K?
Swallowing or ________ is main function that is the work of the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, neck muscles and more,
What is deglutination?
DAILY DOUBLE
I am the thin flap of skin that separates the larynx from the pharnyx.
Three main classes of digestive enzymes.
What are pepsinogens (pepsin), amylases, and lipases?
I am the small valve between the stomach and small intestine.
What is the pyloric sphincter?
This function allows the body to use the nutrients it gets from the food it breaksdown.
What is absorption?
One of the two gases that our normal flora produces.
What is methane or hydrogen sulfide?