The digestive system
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- Created on: 14-05-18 17:23
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- The digestive system
- Bile
- Stored in the gall bladder
- Produced in liver
- Neutralises acids
- Mouth
- Produces saliva
- Breaks starch down into glucose
- Stomach
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- Contains gastric juices and hydrochloric acid to kill bacteria
- Anus
- Expels stool
- Liver
- Produces bile
- De toxifies blood
- Assimilation
- The delivery of soluble food monomers to the cells throughout the body for metabolic reactions
- Absorption
- Small soluble food monomers cross the small intestine wall at the ileum into the blood stream
- Egestion
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- Digestion
- The breakdown of large insoluble food polymers into small soluble food monomers
- Ingestion
- The intake of food into the mouth
- Pancreas
- Release awnzymes and add some them to the duodenum via the bile duct
- Small intestine
- produces enzymes
- Where nutrients are absorbed into the body
- Large intestine
- Where excess water is remove de from food
- Bile
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