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@2025 Exam Material 1 (1) LE DIGESTION SYSTEM, CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM, ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PASS GUARANTEED 100% 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 @2025 Exam Material 2 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 mo

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(1) LE DIGESTION SYSTEM,
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM, ANATOMY
AND PHYSIOLOGY QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS PASS GUARANTEED 100%


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




@2025 Exam Material 1

,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

@2025 Exam Material 2

,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

@2025 Exam Material 3

, 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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