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Digestive Sysrem
Mouth
Question: What is the first step of digestion?
Answer: Mechanical Digestion
Question: This formed by portions of the maxillae and palatine bones
Answer: Hard palate
Question: Amylase breaks down what?
Answer: Starch
Question: What is enamel?
Answer: Hard tissue that covers the crown
Question: What is dentin?
Answer: The bulk of the tooth that consists of a firm, yellowish tissue.
Stomach/ Digestion
Question: What is the primary function of the stomach?
Answer: Store food
Question: Where are protein, lipids and carbohydrates digested?
Answer: Stomach and small intestines
Question: When food enters the stomach, the stretching of the stomach triggers which gastric phase?
Answer: Gastric
Question: Chime moving down the duodenum triggers nerve impulses which trigger which gastric phase?
Answer: Intestinal
Question: Sight, smell, thought or taste of food creates a neural impulse that is which gastric phase?
Answer: Cephalic phase
Small Intestine
Question: Millions of microvilli give the jejunum an enormous surface area, making it an ideal location for what?
Answer: Nutrient Absorption
Question: What part of the intestines does the most digestive processes occur?
Answer: Duodenum
Question: What part of digestion takes place in the small intestine?
Answer: Chemical Digestion
Question: Where is most fat digested?
Answer: Duodenum
Question: Which mesentery hangs over the small intestine like an apron?
Answer: Greater Omentum
Liver, Gallbladder and Pancreas
Question: What is the primary function of the gallbladder?
Answer: To store and concentrate bile.
Question: What organs produce digestive enzymes?
Answer: Gallbladder, liver and pancreas
Question: What is the primary function of the liver?
Answer: form bile salts, which is the most important component of bile.
Question: Which pancreatic cells secrete digestive enzymes?
Answer: Acinar cells
Question: To facilitate digestion, fat must first be broken into small droplets by a process called?
Answer: Emulsification
Large Intestine
Question: What is attached to the lower end of the cecum?
Answer: Appendix
Question: Where is most of the water you drink absorbed?
Answer: Large Intestine
Question: What is an initial trigger to the stomach to begin secreting gastric juices?
Answer: Smell of food.
Question: The large intestine begins in a blind pouch called?
Answer: Cecum
Question: Name the 6 sections of the colon.
Answer: CecumAscending colon
Transverse colon
Descending colon
Sigmoid colon
Rectum