Inorganic nutrients that are required in small amounts.
What are minerals?
100
A federally released document that outlines our daily nutritional requirements.
What is the Canada Food Guide?
100
These are the two sphincters found in the esophagus.
What are the esophogeal sphincter and the cardiac sphincter?
100
Salivary amylase begins chemical digestion by breaking down _______________.
What are carbohydrates/starches?
100
The small intestine is divided into these three regions.
What are the duodenum, jejunum, and the ileum?
200
Organic molecules required in small amounts.
What are vitamins?
200
These can occur as monosaccharides, disaccharhides, and polysaccharides.
What are carbohydrates?
200
This accesory organ produces bile.
What is the liver?
200
Triglycerides are usually broken down by this enzyme.
What is pancreatic lipase?
200
These are the main roles of the small intestine.
What are digestions and absorption?
300
These four vitamins are fat soluble. The rest of the vitamins are water soluble.
What are A,D,E, and K?
300
Less than 5% is considered low, more than 15% is considered high.
What is recommended daily value (Recommended DV)?
300
The structures in the small intestine that increase the SI's ability to absorb nutrients.
What are villi and/or microvilli?
300
Pancreatic amylase would digest this type of molecule.
What is a polysacharride (carbohydrates)?
300
This muscular contraction moves food along the ailemntary canal. This sphincter controls the entrance of chyme into the small intestine.
What is peristalsis and pyloric sphincter?
400
The name we give to amino acids that your body is unable to synthesize itself.
What are esential amino acids?
400
The result of a diet that fails to supply a sufficient amount of chemical energy that the body requires.
What is undernourishment?
400
This specialized section of the large intestine is highly developed in herbivores.
What is the cecum?
400
Protein digestion begins in the stomach with the help of these two molecules.
What are pepsinogen and HCl?
400
This hormone increases your blood sugar level. This second hormone decreases your blood sugar levels.
What glucagon and insulin?
500
Beans, legumes, peanuts, meats, eggs, milk, are all excellent sources of this nutrient.
What are proteins?
500
A long term absence from the diet of one or more essential nutrients.
What is malnourishment?
500
The human mouth contains these three types of teeth.
What are incisors, molars, and canines?
500
Pancreatic carboxypeptidases break down this type of nutrient.
What are polypeptides (proteins)?
500
This structure is found at the core of every vilus, and is important for transporting triglycerides. It is part of this system ______________. (2 answers required)