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breaks food down into small molecules that can be absorbed by blood |
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What is it called when food is chewed, mixed, and churned? |
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What is chemical digestion? |
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chemical reactions break down food |
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What are the type of protein that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction in your body? |
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Many enzymes are involved in the digstion of what 3 things? |
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carbonhydrates, proteins, and fats |
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What are Accessory organs? |
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organs that food does not pass threw them |
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What 3 things change food into a soft mass? |
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tongue, teeth, and saliva |
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here your tongue, teeth, and saliva change food into a soft mass |
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Muscular tube moves food to the stomach using peritahs, or waves of musclar contractions |
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Where does this happen: here food is digested mechanically by perisalsis and chemically by digestive so lutions whith the help of enzymes. Food becomes a water liquid called chyme. |
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What happens in the small intestine? |
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villi increases the surface area to increase abosorbed nutrients to cells |
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What happens in the large intestine? |
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absorbs water from undigested chyme, peristalsis slows down so chyme can be in the large intestines as long as 3 days. The rectum and anus control the releas of solid wastes from the body. |
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What does bacteria make in many organs of your body? |
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