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digestion
body
Term | Definition |
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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 |