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3 main sources of energy are: |
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Fats, carbohydrates and proteins |
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Fish and humans have similar alimentary systems in that... |
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The ureter and kidney system is separate from the digestive system |
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pulsed fashion of work, with processing of components and elimination before new components brought in. Primarily used in coelenterates |
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Continuous-flow, stirred-tank reactor |
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Hollow tubular cavity with continuous processing mixing into homegeneous mass. Overflow passes on. |
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bolus of food passes along a tube-like structure with continuous digestion and varying composition according to position |
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combination of continuous-flow and plug-flow reactors with chemical digestion in the stomuch and small intestine as plug-flow |
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Chemical, mechanical and bacterial treatments prior to absorption |
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The gut is characterized by... |
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Travel of material in single direction through regions with specialized tasks |
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Feeding and swallowing, with certain anatomical associations such as teeth/tongue. Common pathway with gas exchange = valves. Chemoreception (taste buds) occurs here. |
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Digestion aids in headgut... |
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Saliva, mucin, enzymes, anticoagulants |
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Conduction of food to stomach. May contain a crop and gizzard. Includes stomach for storage and mechanical mixing. |
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Digestion aids in the foregut are... |
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Pepsinogen, pepsin and HCl as protein digestion occurs here |
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also known as a proventriculus and has grinding structures. |
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monogastric stomach has... |
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Sphincters at the entrance and exit, and a single sac |
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Pepsinogen is secreted by... |
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Have two divisions and four chambers |
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Partially digested food being regurgitated through esophagus for second chewing before passing into 2nd division of digastric stomach |
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In the rumen of a digastric stomach, digestion is primarily achieved by... |
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Digastric stomachs only secrete digestive enzymes in the... |
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Abomasum, a compartment of the second division. |
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Invertebrates without stomaches digest and absorb food by... |
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outpouchings with enzyme-secreting cells plus phagocytic cells. |
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The Malphigian tubules... |
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allow for the alimentary system of insects to function for water and electrolytes |
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Involved in the chemical digestion of proteins, fats and carbohydrates as well as absorption. Recieves ducts from liver and pancrease. |
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Bile, to emulsify fats and to neutralize acids |
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Alkaline juice and important enzymes |
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The infolding of the intestine is known as... |
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Involved in storage and absorption of water and ions. Fermentation occurs here in some herbivores. |
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Plug-flow reactors are the hindgut fermenters in... |
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Continuous flow-reactors with an enlarged cecum is involved in hindgut fermentation of... |
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In many vertebrates, the hindgut ends in the... |
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In annelids, tunicates and cephalochordates alimentary canal movement is achieved by... |
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Arthropods and chordates achieve alimentary motility through... |
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the coordinated contraction of longitudinal and circular muscle with a direction of movement |
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a muscular movement with no direction controlled by circular muscles. Good for mixing and kneading. |
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The esophagus is controlled by... |
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The central nervous system |
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The GI Tract excluding the esophagus is... |
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myogenic, therefore intrinsically controlled via smooth muscle. |
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Modulated by local stimulations such as mechanical stretching or chemical stimulation by chyme. Stretch induces action potentials |
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A semi fluid mass of partially digested food |
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The nervous system of the GI tract is known as the... |
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Enteric nervous system, with only part of the peripheral NS being capable of local autonomous function |
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The enteric nervous system can be in part controlled by... |
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extrinsic measures via hormones/chemical stimulation (Gastrointestinal peptides/chyme) and the ANS (Sympathetic and parasympathetic NSs) |
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secrete hormones to the circulatory system |
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secrete digestive enzymes, water, mucus and electrolytes into the lumen of the GI tract |
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A mammalian salivary gland is an example of... |
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The acinar portion of the mammalian salivary gland... |
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forms/requires mucin, amylase, water via osmosis, and electrolytes |
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The duct portion of the mammalian salivary gland... |
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Involved in further modification of secretions |
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Secretion can be controlled by... |
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Presence of food in various compartments, chemoreception, ANS, endocrine cells and hormones |
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Occurs before food enters the stomach. Based on sight, smell etc. |
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Based on peptide response, stretch receptors and ANS stimulation |
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secreted in the gastric phase, stimulating HCl and pepsinogen secretion |
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Response of the duodenum to chyme |
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Gastric inhibitory peptide... |
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Secreted in the intestinal phase in response to fatty acids to inhibit pepsinogen and HCl secrtion |
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secreted in the intestinal phase to stimulate pancrease and inhibit the stomach |
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The sodium/glucose cotransporter from intestinal lumen to epithelial cells |
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Fructose facilitated transporter |
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Facilitates transport from the intestinal lumen to epithelial cells for various sugars |
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The levels of Na and K in the intestinal lumen and epithelial cells of the intestine is regulated by... |
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An energy dependent basolateral pump |
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Absorption of monoglycerides, fatty acids and glycerols occurs by... |
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Triglycerides are broken down during diffusion and... |
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Resynthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum |
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Small fat droplets formed in the Golgi before undergoing exocytosis |
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Lymph (involved in fat) is located in... |
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the intercellular space to become blood later |
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Essential amino acids are... |
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Those that cannot be synthesized by an organism |
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Metals for enzymes, cofactors, involved in redox reactions, oxygen transport and shells bones. Charged ions that must be taken up and may be trace elements. |
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Diverse and chemically unrelated organic substance group required in small quantities and function primarily as cofactors for enzymes. |
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