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1. what makes up the gi tract - ANSWER ✓ stomach and intestines
2. mechanical digestion occurs where - ANSWER ✓ grinding of teeth and
churning of stomach and small intestine
3. chemical digestion occurs where - ANSWER ✓ digestive enzymes produced
by salivary glands, stomach, pancreas, and small intestine
4. most absorption occurs where - ANSWER ✓ small intestine
5. small mucosal projections that increase surface area for absorption -
ANSWER ✓ villi
6. permanent transverse folds in the intestinal lining - ANSWER ✓ circular
folds
7. four layers of the digestive tract - ANSWER ✓ mucosa, submucosa,
muscularis externa, serosa
8. (from inner to outer)
9. the submucosal plexus is located ____ - ANSWER ✓ in the submucosa layer
10.the myenteric plexus is located between two layers of the - ANSWER ✓
muscularis externa
11.function of submucosal plexus - ANSWER ✓ control glandular secretions of
mucosa and movement of muscularis mucosae
, 12.function of myenteric plexus - ANSWER ✓ controls peristalsis and other
contractions of muscularis externa
13.what are the three salivary glands - ANSWER ✓ parotid, submandibular,
sublingual
14.function of saliva - ANSWER ✓ begins starch and fat digestion, inhibits
bacterial growth, binds food together to form bolus, dissolves molecules to
stimulate taste buds
15.two enzymes in the saliva - ANSWER ✓ salivary amylase and lingual lipase
16.salivary amylase function - ANSWER ✓ begins starch digestion and breaks
down polysaccharides
17.lingual lipase function - ANSWER ✓ activated by stomach acid and digests
fat after food is swallowed and breaks down triglycerides
18.what is deglutination - ANSWER ✓ swallowing
19.function of digestive system - ANSWER ✓ processes food, extracts
nutrients and eliminates residue
20.the physical breakdown of food into smaller parts - ANSWER ✓ mechanical
digestion
21.A series of hydrolysis reactions that break dietary macromolecules into their
monomers - ANSWER ✓ chemical digestion
22.6 accessory organs - ANSWER ✓ teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver,
gallbladder, pancreas
23.first phase of swallowing - ANSWER ✓ oral phase (voluntary control)
24.second phase of swallowing - ANSWER ✓ pharyngeal phase (involuntary
control)