Definition
The name of when food is being chewed in your mouth.
What is bolus?
Breakdown of food using enzymes.
What is chemical digestion?
This helps in speeding up chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
The amount of teeth that an adult has.
What is 32?
The first organ that food goes through in the digestive system.
What is the mouth?
The involuntary constriction and relaxation of the muscles of the intestine or another canal
What is peristalsis?
What is mechanical digestion?
The places where enzymes are made are in the digestive system.
What are the salivary glands, pancreas, small intestines, and stomach?
Three major enzymes are secreted by the pancreas.
What are pancreatic amylase, lipase and trypsin?
The organ that uses peristalsis to push your food to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
A fluid that is made and released by the liver and stored in the gallbladder
What is bile?
What is alkaline?
The enzyme in saliva.
What is amylase/salivary amylase?
What are the enzymes that work on starch and maltose?
What are salivary amylase, pancreatic amylase and maltase?
The absorption of water and minerals.
What is the large intestine?
The process of digested food moving across the walls of the small intestine into the bloodstream
What is absorption?
Where chemical digestion begins.
What is the stomach?
What are pepsin and trypsin?
the gastric cell that makes gastrin
What is the enteroendocrine cell?
The organ that is after the mouth in the digestive system.
What is the esophagus?
What is ingestion?
The act of placing or putting food in one's mouth.
Where does physical digestion occur?
What are the mouth and stomach?
What are the final products of digestion
What are amino acids, glucose, fatty acids, glycerol, fructose?
What is the name of the enzymes that breaks down fats and oils?
What is lipase?
The three organs in the digestive system help digest food.
What are the pancreas, liver, and gallbladder?