More on Enzymes and Digestion
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- Created on: 07-05-15 18:20
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- More Enzymes and Digestion
- Salivary Glands
- Produces amylase enzyme in the saliva
- Stomach
- It pummels the food with its muscular walls
- It produces the protease enzyme, pepsin
- It produces hydrochloric acid to kill off bacteria and to give the right pH for the protease to work
- Liver
- Where bile is produced and neutralises stomach acid
- Gall baldder
- Where bile is stored, before realised into small intestine
- Pancrease
- Produces protease, amylase and lipase enzymes.
- It releases these into the small intestine
- Produces protease, amylase and lipase enzymes.
- Small intestine
- Produces protease, amylase and lipase enzymes
- Digested food is absorbed out of the digestive system and into the blood
- Large intestine
- Where excess water is absorbed from the food
- Salivary Glands
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