Answers |2026/2027 Update | A+ Graded
pepsinogen - Answer -breakdown proteins
hydrochloric acid (HCl) - Answer -activates pepsinogen to pepsin
mucus - Answer -protects stomach from digesting tissues
- gastric juice (break down proteins into amino acids)
pancreas - Answer -dual function
- acini produce digestive ezymes that get carries by pancreatic duct to duodenum of small
intestines
- secretes hormone insulin and glucagon into blood; control blood sugar levels
acini - Answer -releases digestive enzymes (lipases, carbohydrates, proteases)
hepatopancreatic ampulla - Answer -The ducts that deliver bile and pancreatic juice from the
liver and pancreas, respectively, unite to form the ________.
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, insulin - Answer -beta cell - ensure cells can take in sugars
glucagon - Answer -alpha cell- between meals, breakdown glucose to produce energy
liver - Answer -- produces heparin, prothrombin, thrombin
- kupffer cells destroys bacteria and old cells
- stores carbohydrates as glycogen
- stores copper, iron, VitA,D,E,K
- stores or transform poisons into less harmful substances
- produces bile salts that emulsify or break down fats
gallbladder - Answer -- stores and concentrates bile produces by liver lobules
- bile enters duodenum through common bile duct
gallstones cholesterol stones - Answer -yellow green, 80% of gallstones are cholesterol stones
pigment stones - Answer -smaller/darker, made up of calcium salts of bilirubin, phosphate,
carbonate and other anions
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