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digestion
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nutrients | They are essential for food to enter cells in our body. |
| Food Particals | They are too big to enter our cells |
| Digestion & Enzymez | They are necessary to breakdown food into smaller pieces. |
| Digestion | Breakdown of food. |
| The process is carried out | By our digestive system. |
| Another name for the Digestive system | Alimentary canal or Gut |
| Broken down pieces of food | Can dissolve in water |
| They pass from our Digestive system | To our blood stream |
| Blood carries | Soluble nutrients to our cells |
| Ingestion | Food taken in through the mouth |
| Digestion | Food is broken down and now small enough to pass into bloodstream. |
| Absorption | Dissolved particles of food carried by the bloodstream to cells then used by the body for different purposes |
| Egestion | The unwanted waste not taken into the bloodstream is released from the Digest system |