What is converts food into energy and basic nutrients
100
Smaller version of macronutrients.
What is monomer form
100
The brain uses this amount of glucose that we take in through our diet.
What is 60%
100
Unit of heat energy.
What is calorie
200
Part of the small intestine where a majority of absorption occurs.
What is the jejunum
200
Six major functions of the digestive system.
What is ingestion, secretion, mixing/movement, digestion, absorption, excretion
200
The larger version of macronutrients.
What is polymer form
200
The rest of the glucose is used for these body functions.
What is maintaining body temperature, moving blood, contracting and maintaining cells and tissues
200
A laboratory technique that is used to calculate how much energy is in a given substance by burning it and measuring the heat released, and the amount of energy is described in units of Calories.
What is Calorimetry
300
Bile is produced here.
What is the gallbladder
300
Helps manipulate food in the oral cavity.
What is the tongue
300
Sugars, starches, or fibers.
What is carbohydrates
300
This happens to blood glucose when a person has diabetes.
What is Glucose will become too high or too low
300
You do not get any calories from these directly.
What is micronutrients
400
This controls the opening and closing of a particular organ to another.
What is the sphincter
400
Where fatty acids come from before they are absorbed in the small intestines.
What is the pancreas
400
Small versions of carbohydrates.
What is simple sugars
400
The metabolic formation of fat.
What is lipogenesis
400
What this is called when amino acids bound together.
What is polypeptides
500
The muscular contraction of the esophagus that aids in the movement of bolus to the stomach.
What is peristalsis
500
What polypeptides break down to.
What is amino acids
500
The main macronutrient used by our cells for energy.
What is glucose
500
The important intermediate in the conversion of extra glucose to fat.