General
An earthworm lives in soild and consumes it, making it an example of...
What is a substrate feeder?
This is a viscous mixture of water, salts, cells, and glycoproteins that is contained in saliva
What is mucus?
The stomach secretes a fluid called... The mixture of ingested food and digestive fluids is called...
What is gastric juice? What is chyme?
This is where most chemical digestion happens
What is the duodenum?
Your body can synthesize alanine, therefore alanine is a...
What is a non-essential amino acid?
This is the junction that opens to both the esophagus and the trachea
What is the pharynx? AKA the throat
This is the inactive form of the protease present in the stomach
What is pepsinogen?
Name two proteases the pancreas secretes
What are trypsin and chymotrypsin?
A baleen whale swims with its mouth open, and filters its food from the water it gets, making it an example of...
What is a suspension feeder?
All macromolecules go through this in the mouth
What is mechanical digestion?
An error in this muscle causes heartburn
What is a sphincter?
One of the functions of this fluid is to destroy nonfunctional red blood cells
What is bile? What does bile also do?
Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn is a clotting disorder that prevents the liver from producing functional clotting factors. It is caused by...
What is vitamin K deficiency?
A specialized smooth muscle that regulates the movement of food is called... It works with a process called...
What is a sphincter? What is peristalsis?
Jeopardy break! Describe how HCl and pepsin are made in the stomach!
Chief cells release pepsinogen and parietal cells release hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid activates pepsinogen to pepsin
This organ has many roles, one of them is to release a basic substance into the duodenum to neutralize chyme
What is the pancreas?