Digestive System
Digestive System is the category for questions regarding the breakdown and absorption of food-stuffs in our alimentary canal. Questions about the stomach and intestines can be included in this category.
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no they are able to detoxify substances by enzymatic action
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Peristalsis. .
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Digestive system
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The stomach, large intestine and the small intestine
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Yes, rabbits do have a different digestive system from humans. They are herbivores so they possess a much longer large intestine...
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Lactose is a disaccharide sugar; a sugar composed of two monosaccharides. the two momosaccharides that make lactose are glucose...
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Most of the protein digestion occurs in the stomach. But most digestion overall of all foods (proteins, carbohydrates, and fats)...
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Contractions of the muscles move the Bolus to a Valve called the CARDIAC SPHINCTER VALVE where the Esophagus joins the Stomach. ...
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Yes. There are bacterias inside the digestive tract of a cow and other grazing animals that helps to digest cellulose.
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heart,liver,brain,large intestine,small intestine,lungs,kidneys.
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i don't know the question is.
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No itis the stomache
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Peristalsis is a distinctive pattern of smooth muscle contractions that propels food through the esophagus and intestines. ...
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Yes. Some medical conditions require the removal of the bowel or a bypass from the small intestine to the rectum or sigmoid...
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*** When we digest carbohydrates, they are transformed into sugars. The pancreas, part of the endocrine system, produces the...
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Bile is an important player in the digestive system largely because it helps to digest fats. In the gut, fats exist as...
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Actually the circulatory system and respiratory system and digestive system work together by the circulatory system takes oxygen....
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Once food enters the esophagus, muscular contractions will push the food to the stomach. However, you may have some indigestion...
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Bacteria
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Colonic is the medical term meaning pertaining to the large intestine.
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It usually indicates bacterial infection. There are less common causes which can be diagnosed after taking into consideration...
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They are absorbed in villi .
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pancreas
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it usually takes 3-4 hours for food to move through the small intestine. janelle
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i dont know how to measure your digestive system but what i do know is that your digestive sysem 9m long if stretched out amazing...
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it is the first place the food passes through in the digestive system. It begins the digestive process by mechanically breaking...
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gastric glands
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respiratory and circulatory system are related in such a way that the deoxygenated blood from heart is passed to lungs for...
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Protein is firstly broken in the stomach through Chloridric acid. In the small intestine, the protein is absorbed into the blood...
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Both have different food habits and different environment ,hence different digestive system .
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The seven main organs of the digestive system is the stomach, mouth, esophagus, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, and...
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AnswerNo, it actually takes one to two hours depending on the sugar amount and flexibility of the gum
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To digest paper means: a] to read and absorb the contents of any written work/paper b] literal meaning to eat and...
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The digestive system are the organs that mediates the break down of ingested food into usable compounds for metabolic and growth....
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Many birds, including chickens, have a gizzard, and swallow small stones to help them grind up food. Crocodilians also use...
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Simple physics and biology... When you eat something, it need to be digested... the secretion in your mouth begins to breakdown...
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Aldolase B
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Abdominal adhesions Barrett's esophagus Celiac disease
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Answero 1. Break up food into smaller pieces. 2. Transporting food the the GI tract (gastrointestinal) 3. Screeting digestive...
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the teeth chew the food into smaller peices so it can go down the esophogus easier and so you won't choke and the food has a...
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AnswerThe common bile duct and the pancreatic duct join and enter the duodenum (first section of the small intestine) at the...
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Gastric digestion occurs in the stomach for proteins. And, all other foods are digested in the duodenum.
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The major organs of the digestive tract are: -Mouth/Teeth-Esophagus-Stomach-Small Intestine-Large Intestine-Rectum/AnusThe...
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mechanical digestion is essentially complete, but the other processes are ongoing or have not yet begun
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:) salamat sa pagpunta Dito.. at sa pagkuha ng mga kasaGUTANG MALI.. MGA UTO-UTO... PAANO KAYO NAKASISIGURO NA TAMA ITO GANONG...
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If a child is born without a large intestine it cannot live obviously, where else would it's waste be transported through?
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Food needs to be mechanically digested because the food has to absorb into our cells so that our cells can do the things that...
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to digest the food in our body help by small inrtestine and large intedtine.the 3 ativities of digestive system is...
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In the abdominal cavity. The first part is called the cecum and it is in the Lower Right Quadrant, just inside your hip bone, the...
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the organs that are llocated in the stomach.
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eat healthy foods and drink healthy drinks and dont smoke step1: eat right, consume protein, carbohydrates in right amount and...
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Many herbivores do not have upper incisors (the teeth on the top jaw in the very front that cut food), cutting the plants with...
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Protein synthesis, it's an endergonic reaction. (AP bio ch 5&6 test?)
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Milk is actually basic and not really an acidic drink at all. Milk is not "basic", it is acidic and may give you the runs and...
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Colitis or colonitis is inflammation of the large intestine. Col- from colon, -itis meaning inflammation.
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Gets reabsorbed into bloodstream.
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Feces brown coloration comes from a combination of bile and bilirubin, which comes from dead red blood cells.11....
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eat to live or live to eat, what ever it may be the system is part of life
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Exercise causes hypoxia, which increases the demand on the heart to supply all the vital organs with oxygen. Therefore, being a...
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That is a good patai i will say that healthy eating is good such as eating 5 fruits a day and also eating vitamins and minarals
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use a bile!!!
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Answerhydropic degeneration is a condition of cell in which cloudy swelling appears.in this condition granulation in cell also...
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Mechanical digestion in the mouth is the process of chewing the food by the teeth with the help of saliva. The whole process...
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It means that when you're sick, you are throwing up the acid in your stomach that is there to digest your food
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Medical digestion is the physical process of breaking down food Chemical digestion is the process of breaking down food by...
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Beans cause bad gas, and onions make your breath stink.Beans causes bad gas, and onions make your breath stink.
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dont eat too heavy!
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because when a genotype or phenotype get substituted for the chromosome's nucleus it creates a type of bacteria that is harmful...
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the only one i know isn't really food, but it takes 7 years to fully digest... gum
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it is 7.5m long
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The digestive system or Alimentary system, is the system comprising the oral cavity to the Anal canal. When food is chewed, the...
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Digestion is the chemical and physical breakdown of food into compounds usable by the body. Absorbtion is the taking up of the...
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Food is digested by digestive enzymes in your digestive system. The first digestive enzyme is called amylase and it is found in...
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Both chemical and physical change. physical:chewing food, making it into bolus, squeezing it through the esophagus. chemical:...
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AnswerIn the oral cavity. Saliva contains an enzyme amylase which catalyzes the break up of starchy foods.
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The majority of protein digestion occurs in the stomach and takes about 4-6 hours.
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No. Freezing is when you take something that is in the liquid or vapor phase and turn it into a solid. Your stomach is already...
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Digestion is nothing but conversion of complicated molecules into simple molecules for the use of animal's where as absorption is...
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the lining of a frogs intestine is cool and awesomely slimeyy like my bio teacher
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this is a guess probaley fat or mucseles
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Octreotide Acetate (Sandostatin ®)
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4 minutes
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They are called villi(plural for villus).
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saliva help to change starch into sugar
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the stomach because of the acids that break down food
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villi
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Gastric lavage is cleaning up of gastric content.Ryles tube(feeding tube) is inserted into the stomach.Through which distlled...
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they filter alcohol
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your stomach digests the food and proteins...Duh
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It depends on your definition of "survive".
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The salivary gland produces an important digestive enzyme, called amylase, that helps to break down starches and liquefy the food...
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Digestion is by no means a quick process, taking around 75-80 hours. The food spends around 30 minutes - 2 hours getting to the...
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Most part of the two is similar in that the food goes in from the mouth and the waste products comes out of the anus. But the...
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Pushes food into your stomach using a muscular movement called peristalsis.
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