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What does the digestive system do

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Functions to break down food into consumable parts and extract valuable nutrients and water
Creation and removal of waste products

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What does the creation and removal of waste products allow

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1) to make nutrients available
2) to allow mass processing of low nutrient value food
3) to deal with potentially toxic compounds

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Name the Basic human structures

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Oral cavity-> pharynx-> oesophagus-> stomach-> duodenum-> jejunum -> ileum-> caecum-> ascending colon -> transverse colon -> descending colon-> rectum -> anal canal

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What is the roof of the buccal cavity called

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Palate

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What does the palate separate

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Oral and nasal cavities

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What is the primary palate called

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In most fishes is a Low vault with no openings. Basic design where nasal passage opens into bucal cavity (salamanders)

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What is the Choanae

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Opening into nasal cavity (tetrapods)

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What is the second palate

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Palatal folds form a second horizontal shelf that separates the nose and mouth

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What are palate folds

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Creates secondary palate

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What does the soft palate often do

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It hangs from the bony hard palate and pushes the internal nares (opening to the nasal cavity) further back in the buccal cavity

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Hat is the function of the tongue in humans

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To move food around mouth and push food to the back of the mouth for swalllowing

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Describe the tongue in snakes and nectar feeding bats

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Flexible and mobile

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Describe the tongue in jawed fish, turtles, crocs and some birds

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Immobile

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What are the modifications of a frog tongue

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Allow tongue to protrude quickly and be drawn back, glands to create sticky fluid

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What is the function of the buccal cavity

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Create secretions and release into buccal cavity

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What does labial mean

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Near the lips

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What does palatal mean

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Near the palate

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Where is the pharynx seen

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In all tetrapods

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What is the pharynx subdivided into

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Nasopharynx (air passage)

Oropharynx (food)

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What is the eustacian tube

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Opening to the oesophagus, opening to larynx

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What is the eustacian tube covered by

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The epiglottis

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Describe the stages of swallowing

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Bolus of food pushed from the buccal cavity to the oesophagus then to the stomach

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How do snakes continue breathing whilst swallowing their food

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The snakes trachea slips down and forwards beneath prey

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What is the oesophagus

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A muscular tube connecting pharynx to stomach

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Some species have __________ epithelium, others _______ to allow ingestion of abrasive ______
Stratified, keratinised, food
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What is the oesophagus site of
Large amounts of food if swallowed at one time
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What is the difference with a birds oesophagus
It posses a crop
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What is a crop
Outgrowth of oesophagus used to store food prior to digestion or regurgitation
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In pigeons what does the crop do
It secretes a nutritional fluid to feed hatchlings for several days - pigeon milk
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What is the stomach
Muscular sac to receive, churn food and process it using gastric juices
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Some carnivores use the stomach for what
When intake is irregular and large quantities of food are eaten
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What is secreted from the stomach to prevent food decay by bacteria whilst food was stored prior to digestion
Acid secretion
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What are examples or gastric juices
HCL plus some enzyme and mucus
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What are the inner folds called in the stomach
Rugae
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Mucosal histology splits the stomach into what
Glandular and non-glandular epithelium
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What is the cardiac gland within stomach
Only found in mammals and marks the transition for oesophagus to stomach (mostly mucus secreting)
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What is the funds/gastric glands
Mucus cells, parietal cells (HCL) and chief cells (proteolytic enzymes)
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What is the pyloric gland
Contains pyloric glands that create mucous that helps to neutralise acidic chyme prior to release into the intestine
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In rodents the loss of gastric glands leads to what
Smooth muscle stomach that uses contractions to churn and mix food
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Rodent epithelial may also be what to resist mechanical abrasion from insect exoskeletons, grasses and seeds
Keratinised
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What animals contain a gizzard
Crocs and alligators
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What is a gizzard
A region of the stomach with very thick muscular walls
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What does the gizzard do
Grinds food against ingested stones
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What lies before the gizzard
Glandular part
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What breaks down the food in the gizzard
Gastric juices from the glandular part and the mechanical grinding in the gizzard
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What two things do birds posses in the stomach
Crop and gizzard
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In birds where does the oesophagus join
To the proventriculus
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What does the proventriculus do in birds
Secretes gastric fluid to digest the food bolus
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In ruminants and camels how many chambers are there in the stomach
4
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What are the 4 chambers of the stomach in camels and ruminants
Rumen Reticulum Omasum Abomasum
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What is the rumen
Large and serves to receive the food from the oesophagus
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What follows the rumen
The reticulum
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Both the rumen and reticulum are lined with what
Oesophageal epithelium
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What is the omasum
The third chamber
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What is the omasum lined with
Oesophageal epithelium but folded into overlapping leaves
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What is the abomasum
The final chamber
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What does the abomasum contain tht the other chambers don't
Possesses a cardia, fundus and pylorus
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What does the liver do
Detoxification of blood and production of bile
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What animals is the gall bladder present
Bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, some birds and most mammals
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What type of functions does the pancreas have
Endocrine and exocrine

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