Digestive System Flashcards
1
Q
What is Digestion?
A
breakdown of food into small molecules
2
Q
What is Absorption?
A
nutrients that come from the food pass through channels in the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream
3
Q
What is the Digestive System for?
A
To digest our food properly, and to excrete it normally
4
Q
Ingestion -> Digestion -> Absorption -> ? -> ?
A
Assimilation -> Excretion
