CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM, ANATOMY
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Mechanical Digestion - Answer ✅Physical breakdown of large pieces of food into smaller pieces
Chemical Digestion - Answer ✅Enzymes break down food into smaller molecules
Enzymes - Answer ✅Biological Catalysts which speed up the rate of reactions
Esophagus - Answer ✅A muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.
Gallbladder - Answer ✅Stores bile
Tongue - Answer ✅manipulates food for chewing and swallowing; a taste organ
liver - Answer ✅Blood filtration, production of bile
pancreas - Answer ✅An accessory organ of the digestive system that produces protease, lipase
and amylase which helps complete digestion in the small intestine
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,Saliva - Answer ✅The fluid with amylase(carbohydrase) to begin carbohydrate digestion in the
mouth.
Peristalsis - Answer ✅Involuntary waves of muscle contraction that keep food moving along in
one direction through the digestive system. No enzymes.
Epiglottis - Answer ✅A flap of tissue that seals off the windpipe and prevents food from
entering.
Bile - Answer ✅emulsifies fat
Stomach - Answer ✅A muscular and elastic sac that serves mainly to store food, break it up
mechanically, and begin chemical digestion of proteins
Large Intestine - Answer ✅Absorbs water/minerals and forms feces
Small intestine - Answer ✅The part of the digestive system in which most chemical digestion
takes place.
function of villi in small intestine - Answer ✅increase surface area for absorption
Starch is... - Answer ✅digested into glucose
Absorption - Answer ✅The process by which nutrient molecules pass through the wall of the
digestive system into the blood
Egestion - Answer ✅removal of undigested waste
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,Osmosis - Answer ✅Diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane
Ingestion - Answer ✅Intake of food
Nutrition - Answer ✅The process by which your body takes in and uses food
Nurients used by mitochondria to make... - Answer ✅Energy in the form of ATP
Synthesis - Answer ✅combining parts into a whole, to make
regulation - Answer ✅maintain homeostasis
pancreas and gallbladder - Answer ✅Accessory organs that release enzymes/bile into the small
intestine
lacteals - Answer ✅specialized lymph vessels in the small intestine that absorb fat into the
bloodstream
organic compounds - Answer ✅Composed of Carbon & Hydrogen)fats, carbs, protein, DNA
Acidic (low pH) organ - Answer ✅stomach
Lysosomes - Answer ✅An organelle containing digestive enzymes
Homeostasis - Answer ✅A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state
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, feedback mechanism - Answer ✅the process by which a certain function is regulated by the
amount of the substance it produces
Shape determines... - Answer ✅function in enzymes, antibodies and hormones
Factors that affect enzymes... - Answer ✅pH and temperature
biological catalysts - Answer ✅specific shaped enzymes that speed up the rate of reactions
meat is high in ... - Answer ✅protein
Proteins - Answer ✅Chains of amino acids
Molecule that digests starch? - Answer ✅Enzyme called amylase(or carbohydrase)
To diffuse, starch must be digested into... - Answer ✅glucose
Mitochondria - Answer ✅Powerhouse of the cell, organelle that is the site of ATP (energy)
production
ATP is needed for... - Answer ✅Active transport to occur
emulsification of fats - Answer ✅The primary function of bile
What is the function of the cardiovascular system? - Answer ✅Transportation
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