The Digestive System

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How is food broken down in the mouth first?
Mechanical Digestion
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What does mechanical digestion do to the food?
Increases surface area
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What enzyme breaks down the starch in the mouth?
Amylase
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What does enzyme amylase break starch down into?
Maltose
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To widen the gut, which muscles have to contract?
Longitudinal
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After the gut, where does the food go?
Stomach
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What is digested in the stomach?
Protein
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Which enzyme digests protein?
Protease
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What does the protease enzyme break it down into?
Amino acids
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What is protease enzymes real name?
Pepsin
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What muscle holds the food in the stomach?
Sphincter
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What is the first part of the small intestine called?
Duodenum
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Which enzymes are added to the food in the duodenum?
Enzyme amylase, enzyme maltase, and enzyme lipase
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Which two enzymes break down starch?
amylase and maltase
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What is added to the food in the duodenum?
Bile
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What does bile do to the fats?
Turns it into tiny droplets
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Where is bile stored?
Gall bladder
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Where does the food go after its been in the duodenum?
Ileum
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What happens in the ileum?
Absorption
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What does mechanical digestion do to the food?

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Increases surface area

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What does enzyme amylase break starch down into?

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To widen the gut, which muscles have to contract?

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