Digestive System Test Flashcards
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What are the sharp teeth used for tearing food?
Canines
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What is bolus?
It is the food after it has been Brocken down.
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When chyme enters the small intestine,
None of the given choices occur
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The process in which waste is eliminated.
Defecation
17
What is the order in how the digestive system works?
Food enters your mouth, food enters your esophagus, food enters your small intestine, food enters your large intestine
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What process involves muscle contractions that move food through the esophagus?
Peristalsis
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Where does digestion of carbs begin?
The mouth
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Which process takes lace in the large intestine?
Vitamin K is produced, leftover nutrients are observed through the villi, water is removed from undirected food, Enzymes are added to complete chemical digestion
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What digestive organs release enzymes that help break down starches, proteins, an fats in the small intestine
Pancreas
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What organ stores bile?
Gallbladder
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Where does most chemical digestion take place?
Duodenum
33
What is chyme?
It is the food after it has been digested in the stomach.
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About half of the different _________ that make up proteins and are made up inside the body.
Omino acids
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Nutrient molecules pass from the small intestine into the bloodstream through tiny structures called ______.
Villi
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The _________ stores bile and releases it through a tube in the small intestine.
Gallbladder
