Digestive system

Question 1

Name all of the parts of the oral cavity

Answer 1

Incisors, cuspid, premolars, molars, tonsils, hard palate, uvula, tongue

Question 2

What is the mechanical digestion and chemical digestion of oral cavity

Answer 2

Chewing food into smaller pieces using your teeth - M

Salivary amylase which contains saliva that helps you moisten and break down food - C

Question 3

What is a bolus and epiglottis?

Answer 3

Bolus - a moisten ball that makes it easier to swallow and digest through the digestive tract

Epiglottis - a small valve that prevents food from entering the windpipe aka trachea. This prevents choking

Question 4

Name all the things in esophagus

Answer 4

Esophagus, bolus, peristalsis

Question 5

What is the peristalsis?

Answer 5

A digestive muscular tract that moves down the esophagus and helps food travel in wave like motions.

Question 6

Name all parts of the stomach.

Answer 6

Rugae, cardiac sphincter, phyloric sphincter, muscular wall, duodenum

Question 7

What are some secrete substances in the stomach

Answer 7

Pepsinogen, rennin (in kids only) and hydrochloric acid.

Question 8

What is pepsinogen?

Answer 8

Inactive enzyme that changes to pepsin

Question 9

what is HCI

Answer 9

Destroys invading microbes and provides acidic environment for pepsin

Question 10

What is the mechanical and chemical digestion of the stomach?

Answer 10

Breaking down and mixing the food into the acid by muscular contractions - M

Breaking food by hydronic acid with gastric juice - C

Question 11

What is chyme?

Answer 11

The bolus once it mechanically and chemically digests in the stomach

Question 12

Name all the parts of the small intestine

Answer 12

Duodenum, jejunum, ileum

Question 13

What is the function of the small intestine?

Answer 13

The site where digestion is complete and nutrients are absorbed into the circulatory system

Question 14

What does peptidases do?

Answer 14

Digest peptids into smaller peptides and amino acids

Question 15

What does the Nucleases do?

Answer 15

Break down RNA and DNA into nucleotides

Question 16

What does the Carbohydrates do?

Answer 16

Digest respective disaccharides into monosaccharides

Question 17

What is intestinal absorption?

Answer 17

Nutrients absorption though the walls they travel to capillars, circulatory carries nutrients to the cells

Question 18

What is a villi and microvilli

Answer 18

It covers folds and increases SA to maximize absorption.

Question 19

What other parts are in the small intestine

Answer 19

Epithelium and capillars

Question 20

The mesentery, what is it?

Answer 20

Something that helps attach the small intestine to the abdominal wall

Question 21

Name all of the parts of the large intestine

Answer 21

Caecum, Ileocecal, ascending colon, transverse colon, decending colon, sigmoid colon, rectum, teniae coli, fat tags, appendix

Question 22

What is the main function?

Answer 22

Absorb water, 90% is absorbed and taken back to the blood

Question 23

What are some other functions?

Answer 23

Billions of good bacteria that break down undigested food ad material, K n B and folic acid gets absorbed into the bloodstream. Leftovers become feces which gets pushed into the rectum.

Question 24

What is the appendix

Answer 24

Organ that has a large amount of good bacteria, and immune function in adults

Question 25

Name ALL of the digestive organs

Answer 25

Oral cavity, salivary glands, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, anus, liver, gall bladder and pancreas.