Process of digestion
The process in which when we take in food through our mouth?
what is ingestion?
What is the mouth?
The J-shaped organ that lies on the left side of the body beneath the diaphragm.
What is the stomach?
named because of its smaller diameter compared to the other intestine
What is the Small intestine?
a required component of food that performs a physiological function in the body.
what are nutrients?
The breakdown of larger pieces of food into smaller pieces?
what is Digestion?
used to break down foods when they enter the mouth
what are teeth?
allows the stomach to stretch and to mechanically break down food into smaller fragments that are mixed with gastric juices
What is the oblique layer?
Nutrients are absorbed into this intestine.
what is the Small intestine
a broad group of organic compounds which include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins etc..
what are lipids?
This occurs as subunit molecules produced by chemical digestion cross the wall of the GI tract and the cells lining the tract
What is absorption
A muscular tube that moves food to the stomach
What is the esophagus
A liquid that lies in the stomach that helps break down food.
What is Gastric juice?
fingerlike projections in the mucosa of the small intestine.
what are villi?
preffered energy source for the body
what are carbohydrates?
This process removes molecules that cannot be digested
what is elimination?
Both the mouth and the nasal passages lead to the (blank), which is commonly called the throat.
What is the pharynx
thick, soupy liquid of partially digested food
what is chyme?
The first portion of the large intestine joining the end of the small intestine.
What is the cecum?
having a body mass index of 30 or greater will categorize you as...
What is obese?
Located within a tube called the gastrointestinal (GI) tract
What is the digestive system?
moves the food through the esophagus
What is peristalsis?
deep folds in the mucosa of the stomach
What is the Rugae?
small projections located inside the cecum
what is the vermiform appendix?
proteins are digested to amino acids which cells use to synthesize hundreds of.....
what are cellular proteins?