Organs and Organ Systems
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- Created on: 15-02-16 13:21
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- Organs and Organ Systems
- Tissues Make Up Organs
- An ORGAN is a group of DIFFERENT TISSUES that work together to perform a certain FUNTION.
- The STOMACH is an organ made of these tissues:
- Muscular Tissue, which moves the stomach wall to churn (mix) up the food.
- Glandular tissue, which makes digestive juices to digest food.
- Epithelial Tissue, which covers the outside and inside of the stomach.
- Organs Make Up Organ Systems
- An organ system is a group of organs working together to perform a particular function.
- The digestion system is found in humans and other mammals.
- The digestive system breaks down food. It does this by releasing digestive juices.
- Then the digestive system absorbs (takes in) the products of digestion.
- The digestive system breaks down food. It does this by releasing digestive juices.
- The Digestive System
- You need to know where all these organs are in the digestive system:
- Salivary Glandsproduces digestive juices e.g. saliva.
- Labelled Diagram for each different parts of the digestive system can be found on bbcbitesize, additional science, Biology.
- Liver produces bile.
- Stomach digests food.
- Pancreas (a gland) produces digestive juices.
- Large intestine absorbs water from undigested food, leaving faeces.
- Small intestine 1) Digests food 2) Absorbs soluble food molecules, e.g. glucose.
- You need to know where all these organs are in the digestive system:
- Tissues Make Up Organs
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