Organ Functions
What organ stores bile?
Gallbladder
What stage of digestion is for food actually entering the stomach?
Gastric
This hormone acts on the pancreas to stimulate pancreatic juice, lower pH and increase bile release
Secretin
Salivary amylase functions to breakdown what?
carbs (pancreatic amylase completes the process)
What is the longest section of the small intestine?
Ileum
Which organ is responsible for reabsorbing water and compacting feces?
Large Intestine (or Colon)
What stage of digestion is for chyme entering the duodenum?
Intestinal
This hormone slows down peristalsis and increase insulin secretion from pancreas.
Gastric Inhibitory Peptide (GIP)
The pancreatic enzyme that breaks down proteins
protease
Which part of the small intestine is the area for the majority of chemical digestion and nutrient absorption?
Jejunum
Regulating the composition of blood/destroying old RBCs is a job of what organ?
What stage of digestion is for the stomach to produce gastric juices in preparation for food?
cephalic
This hormone promotes stomach motility.
Gastrin
The pancreatic enzyme that breaks down fats
lipase
Which type of stomach cell protects the lining of the stomach?
The movement that occurs within the stomach and intestine to help push contents forward
peristalsis
Bile helps in the digestion of what?
Lipids
This hormone causes both an increase in pancreatic juice, and slows the rate of stomach emptying into small intestine
Cholecystokinin (CCK)
The pancreatic enzyme that breaks down DNA and RNA
nuclease
Chief cells are primarily responsible for
secreting pepsinogen and lipase (protein and fat breakdown)
The breaking apart of complex molecules into more simple molecules, by the addition of H2O
Hydrolysis
What specialized stomach cell secretes HCl to breakdown meat and fibrous plants?
parietal