Digestive/Metabolism Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
The small intestine is the body's what? | Major digestive organ |
What are the three subdivisions? | Duodenum, Jejunum, & Ileum. |
During Gastrointestinal processes, what is Ingestion? | In which food must be placed into the mouth before it can be acted on. An active voluntary process. |
The action Propulsion means? | Foods are to be processed more than one digestive organ. |
A Propulisive action that involves alternating waves of contraction and relaxation of the muscles in the organ wall is what? | Peristalsis. |
Segmentation? | May help to propel foodstuffs through the small intestine , it normally only moves food back and forth across the internal wall of the organ, serving to mix it with digestive juices. |
Chemical digestion is what? | The sequence of steps in which large food molecules are broken down to their building blocks by enzymes(protein molecules that act as catalysts.) |
Defecation has the main importance of digestion. What is it's purpose? | Is the elimination of indigestible substances from the body via the anus in the form of feces. |
Absorption in the intestinal process does what? | Transport of digested end products from the lumen of the GI tract to the blood or lymph. |
What are the building blocks? | They are the carbohydrates-monosaccharides or simple sugars. Glucose, fructose, and galactose. Sucrose, lactose, maltose, and starch also known as polysaccharide. Disaccharides or double sugars. |
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