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Week 7 Digestion Lecture Study Guide
Based on information found in the lecture folder or other sources, answer the following
questions.
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What is digestion?
List some other names of the digestive tract.
Explain where and how the mechanical breakdown of food occurs.
How does food move through the digestive tract.
What is released from the gall bladder when food is in the duodenum?
The organs of the digestive tract form a continuous tube from mouth to anus.
List the organs of the tract including specific regions of the small and large
intestine, from proximal to distal in the blanks…
Mouth -> _______________ -> _________________ -> _________________ -> small
intestine ->
________________ -> _________________ -> ___________________ -> large
intestine: cecum,
appendix, -> _____________________ -> _____________________ ->
__________________ ->
____________________ -> _____________________ -> ___________________ ->
anus
7. Fill in the chart.
Organ
Mouth
Esophagus
Stomach
Pancreas
liver
Gallbladder
Function
Secretes
Helps to digest
what food type
(carb, prot,fat)?
Small intestine
Large intestine
Anus
8. What are the 3 major classes of food? Which is the first and last to be broken
down during digestion?
9. What are the major vitamins we need and why?
10. List the major minerals we need and what purpose they serve in our bodies.
11. Name the 3 pairs of salivary glands.
12. What tissue type and muscle type do you find in the esophagus? How does
affect function?
13. Where does the pancreas empty digestive enzymes?
14. Where does the gall bladder empty digestive enzymes?
15. In which part of the digestive system does food spend the most time?
16. What are the muscles like in the stomach?
17. What are goblet cells, Peyer’s patches, and villi? Where are they found and why
are they important?
18. Where is most digested food absorbed?
19. What is the main function of the large intestine?
20. What causes heartburn?
21. How long is the human digestive system?
22. Describe the structure and function of villi.
23. What is the relationship of size between large and small intestine?
24. Name the 3 pair of salivary glands and explain the function of saliva.
25. What does amylase digest?
26. Explain where and how the mechanical breakdown of food takes place.
27. Why is the stomach acid and how does the stomach protect itself from being
digested?
28. What are the end products of protein, fat, and carbohydrate digestion?
29. Solid wastes are discharged through the ____.
30. How many calories are produced when 1 gram or carbohydrate is oxidized? What
about 1 gram of protein and 1 of fat?
31. Define:
a. emulsify,
b. peristalsis,
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d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
m.
n.
o.
p.
q.
r.
s.
t.
constipation,
diarrhea,
metabolism,
anabolism,
catabolism,
gluconeogenesis,
glycogenolysis
glycogenesis
BMR
Pharynx
Esophagus
Pyloric sphincter
parietal cells
dentin
propulsion
buccal phase
rennin
ulcer