Solutions
What is the fasting blood glucose? –
Answer✅️ ☑️70 – 100 mg/dL
Digestion Absorption of Glucose: Mouth –
Answer✅️ ☑️chewing allows for an increase in
the surface area : volume
Produces salivary alpha-amylase
What does alpha-amylase do? –
Answer✅️☑️Breaks the alpha 1 4 linkage in
glucose
Digestion Absorption of Glucose: Esophagus –
Answer✅️ ☑️acts simply as a tube
,Digestion Absorption of Glucose: Stomach –
Answer✅️ ☑️HCl aids in breakdown/digestion,
has a pH of 1-3
Produces chyme
In a high protein diet, the pH of the stomach
is closer to
Why? – Answer✅️
☑️3
Proteins are able to buffer the pH
In a high starch diet, the pH of the stomach is
closer to – Answer✅️ ☑️1
Chyme passes through the ____ to the _____ -
Answer✅️☑️Pyloric sphincter, small intestine
Digestion Absorption of Glucose: Small
Intestine – Answer✅️ ☑️primary site of
digestion and nutrient absorption
, What are the three parts of the small
intestine? – Answer✅️☑️duodenum, jejunum,
ileum
What is in the gallbladder? What does it do in
the small intestine? – Answer✅️ ☑️Bile/Bile
salts. They neutralize the pH of chyme in the
small intestine
Where are bile/bile salts produced? –
Answer✅️ ☑️The liver
What does neutralized the pH in the small
intestine allow us to do? – Answer✅️
☑️secrete
enzymes from the pancreas
What does the exocrine pancreas release? –
Answer✅️☑️pancreatic alpha-amylase
After a glucose molecule is released in the
small intestine... – Answer✅️☑️it is taken