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| The organ that breaks down food into liquid |
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An oval organ that sends fluid into the small intestine to chemically digest and neutralize chyme |
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The narrow tube covered with nutrient absorbing villi. |
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The small saclike organ that stores bile. |
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| The organ that changes liquid waste into semisolid waste |
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| The large organ that stores nutrients and breaks down toxins. |
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| Parts of the digestive system involved in mechanical digestion. |
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| Parts of the digestive system involved in chemical digestion. |
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| saliva, stomach, small intestine, liver, pancreas, gall bladder |
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| Break down protein into amino acids |
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The soupy mixture found in the stomach after several hours of digestion |
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| In the mouth, the enzymes in saliva begin the digestion of what nutrient. |
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| Most digestion takes place here |
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| What might not be digested if the liver did not make bile |
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How do nutrients get into the blood stream. |
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| through villi in the small intestine. |
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