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What are enzymes?
What does digestion do?
Quaternary shape?
Digestion ?
Secondary shape?
When enzymes are active what does there name end in?
A protein that has temporarily changed shape is?
When enzymes are inactive what do there names end with?
What does the GI use to break down food?
Tertiary shape?
How many categories of shapes are there?
What are all protein functions based on?
Where does digestion occur?
Egestion ?
Absorption?
Primary shape?
If temperature and Ph change, what else can change?
What does the enzymes first part often refer too?
Competitive Inhibition?
Chemical Digestion?
A protein that has permanently changed shape is?
Competitive inhibition can be used by the body to ?
Allosteric Inhibition?
Feedback Inhibition?
How long is the digestion system ?
Competive Inhibition is also the source of many?
Propulsion ?
How many parts to the digestion system ?
Physical Digestion?
What happens in the 6.5 - 9 m long tube from beginning to end?
Ingestion?
The mouth is where what begins?
Carbohydrate digestion begins with?
Food that has been digested in the mouth is known as ?
What do muscle contractions in the esophagus do?
What do muscle contractions continue?
What does the enzyme pepsin do?
Alcohol and caffeine are absorbed where?
Food that has been digested by the stomach is known as?
In the small intestine chemicals from where are added?
What is digested in the small intestine?
Where are nutrients absorbed to after/during the small intestine digestion?
What does the large intestine absorb?
Where does the formation of fecal matter happen
What are the 5 parts of the mouth?
How many processes occur in the mouth?
Prohension?
Mastication?
What type of digestion, digests polysaccharides?
Swallowing
1st process that occurs in the mouth?
2nd process that occurs in the mouth?
3rd process that occurs in the mouth?
4th process that occurs in the mouth ?
What increases foods
surface area ?
Why is saliva and mucus added to food?
What type of enzyme does saliva have?
What does Amylase begin?
How many glands are there that produce the contents of saliva ?
What are the 3 glands that produce the contents of saliva ?
Parotid?
Submandibular ?
Sublingular ?
What does saliva do?
During the swallowing process bolus is presses back into the _______?
The swallowing process starts as a voluntary process and then becomes
What is the epiglottis?
What is the basic role of the esophagus?
The bolus is propelled by the contractions of _____ ________ ?
What is this movement called?
Where does the esophagus pass through?
What is the purpose of the stomach?
With what is entrance to and exit from the stomach controlled by?
Sphincters ?
What do smooth muscles in the stomach do ?
Physical mixing and crushing moves foo towards the _______ ______ at the stomach's bottom
Chemical digestion in the stomach utilises the production of a series of 3 different gastric fluids , what are those 3 fluids?
during a large meal, approximately how much gastric fluid will be produced?
What do mucus surface cells produce?
What are bicarbonate ions?
What does mucus act as?
What do parietal cells produce?
What does hydrochloric acid activate?
Chief cells produce?
If pepsinogen comes in contact with a low PH it _______ ____ _____?
Pepsin?
Chief cells and enteroendocrine cells release?
What does gastrin do?
Vomiting?
Vomiting is experienced in 3 steps, what are those steps?
Vomiting is forced by?
What are the 2 types of vomiting?
Projectile vomiting?
Regurgitation vomit?
Ulcers?
With ulcers hydrochloric acid is able to ?
What are ulcers commonly caused by?
Heartburn?
Hiatial Hernia?
What is the fist part of the small intestine?
How long is the fist part of the small intestine ?
Why is the small intestine important?
From where does the small intestine receive material and secretions ?
What are secretions?
