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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It is the organ that stores bile.
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it is made in the small intestine
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The process of digestion ends in large intestine.
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Reader's Digest began publication in 1922.
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Amylose, Amylopectin
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Digestion begins in the mouth. Mechanical digestion begins with the chewing of food. Chemical digestion also begins in the mouth...
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The alimentary canal includes the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anal canal
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From food to droppings takes between three to four hours - ferrets have a very fast metabolism.
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most primates.
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Some times if you have bad bacteria in your system, it is best to dispose if them.
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You use teeth to chew up food to make the digestion easier! Make sure you chew food thoroughly so it won't be so hard to digest.
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The acidic environment supports the enzymes that break down the food, and makes it slightly easier for the food to dissolve in...
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During the fight-or-flight response, your body provides you with energy, reflexes, and strength you may need to respond to the...
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Lysosomes
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DIGESTION TIME OF VARIOUS FOODS (approx. time spent in stomach before emptying). ........ Water when stomach is empty, leaves...
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When food is done chemically and mechanically digested it is us for energy for your body, repair broken body parts, grow hair,...
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digestion Actually no digestion takes place in the large intestine this organ is almost entirely for water absorption.
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mechanical digestion is with your teeth , chemical digestion is in your stomach and small intestine.
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Mammals have a complete digestive tract, it starts from mouth to anus. Although each species have some different type and length...
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your body would look like as if someone have blown you up
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Amylase, Lipase, Cellulase, Maltase, Lactase, Phytase, and Sucrase
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The stomach is the organ that produces chyme.
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There are many. Digestion is a twofold process; physical digestion and enzymatic digestion. Physical digestion is the act of...
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Any form of active transport, which can be defined as any movement of molecules against or independent of a concentration...
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you gather your nutrients in your small intestine. your large intestine is where all the water is gathered and the remains turn...
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Mechanical digestion happens in only in 2 of your digestion organs mouth and stomach. Mechanical digestion is the mechanical way...
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it goes out the other end.
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what mechanism that you body has that maintain fluid balance?
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Mouth -> Esophogas -> Stomach -> Small Intestine -> Large Intestine -> Cloaca -> Anus Mouth: Where the food...
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The large intestine differs from the small intestine in length, diameter, and function. The small intestine is longer than the...
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The study of the digestive system and the diseases that occur inside, is called "gastroenterology". 'Gastro' derives from the...
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The food enters the small intestine first
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There are so many structures in the digestive system because the the food can be digested very easily and broken down into...
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Bile is stored in the gallbladder, prior to secretion in to the duodenum.
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Sigmoid Colon
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Enzymes are crucial contributors to protein digestion. Protein-digestingproteinases or proteases. Protein generally takes the...
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After you've eaten a roast dinner, fill up the tray that held the potatoes with water, and watch as giant globules of oil settle...
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The process of digestion begins in the mouth. As you chew, you release saliva into your mouth. Your saliva begins to convert...
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The metabolism is the process in which food is converted to energy, so for weight loss it is best. The faster it is , the more...
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Infectious agents, small aerosol and dust particles are trapped in the mucus elevator to prevent their invasion in lungs.
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As long as 7 days unless something tears in you then you die very quickly
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None. The stomach is the place where you liquefy your food and turn it into an isotonic slurry. (Alcohol is absorbed through...
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Hydrochloric acid.
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Colonoscopy.
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to digest food and take in needed nutrients and calories
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mostly small intestine/bowel
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fist the stomach where the digestion of proteins starts second the pancreas which secretes pancreatic juice which helps in the...
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The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for the process of digestion. So, when a person is relaxed, unstressed, and...
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our stomach has a chemical which lines the stomach and acts like a base which keeps it from digesting itself
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after nutrients are broken down, they pass into the blood-stream and are taken to the body cells for use in the methabolism and...
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most digestion occurs in the small intestine where all the nutrients and minerals are extracted and put ino the bloodstream. the...
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Enzymes' function is to digest macromolecules into smaller, soluble molecules that can be absorbed into the bloodstream. Each...
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Each animal species has its own digestive system suited for its own needs, diet, and enviroment. Adaptation and evolution has...
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yes, it does a specific function.
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The function of the large intestine is to allow for small amount of absorption but mostly for removal of wastes from the body...
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Digestive juice, in the stomach, helps by secreting pepsin and Hydrocloric acid. The HCl creates a nice acidic environment for...
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Amylase digests starch into the disaccharide, maltose.
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Digestion is a biological process that existed long before humans did. Nobody invented it.
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to abstract a large amount of nutrients
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P. vulgaris does digest casein. When placed on a casein agar plate, which is opaque, and incubated P. vulgaris will leave a...
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If you have damage in your intestine and you have Celiac Disease you do not have to remove that intestine. The intestine will...
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It shouldn't Surgical treatment is not an option for control of celiac disease however prior to diagnosis some patients undergo...
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In the mouth - by chewing (mastication) and enzymes such as pepsin (breaks down starch)
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For ease of digestion, the usual mantra is BRAT -- Bananas, Rice, Applesauce and Toast. Some people have added Tea and Yogurt...
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In digestion, they break down substances into smaller molecules, so that they can then be absorbed into the bloodstream. ...
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um acually nothing happenes it gets digested and that's it lol Most seeds are indigestible and they pass harmlessly through the...
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the name of the enzyme that digest protein is pepsin and the end product is polypeptide and peptones
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Your body absorbs vitamins and minerals from the food you ingest, and anything left over that isn't burned/stored for energy...
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The primary site of nutrient digestion is the small intestine, but this also takes place to a lesser extent in the stomach and...
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The process of digestion starts from the mouth, so when you put your pizza bite in your mouth, the salivary glands moistens the...
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as we know enzymes assist in chemical digestion as they act on food, such as fat molecules, and break them down into simpler...
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The pH of the small intestine is roughly pH 8. It is slightly alkaline, as this is the alkalinity which best suits digestive...
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Hydrocholoric Acid
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It causes the release of bile into the small intestine from the gall bladder.
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mouth, stomach, small and large intestine
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Theres not really any problem doing it after i do it my throat feel funny but not really any bad side effects
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The large intestine is approximately five feet in length.
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they are all systems
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No, it is physically impossible to laugh so hard you vomit out your small intestine. The small intestine extracts nutrients from...
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Pretty much nothing, chemically speaking. They get pushed through the system along with everything else through peristalsis and...
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Approximately 1.5metres (or 5ft).
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The stomach lining contains three types of glands. The pyloric glands, the cardiac gastric glands, secrete mucus that covers the...
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