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What is the function of digestive system?
-BREAK FOOD INTO USABLE FORM
Usable Form
-Small molecule and dissolved
Mechanical digestion
-Breaks food into small pieces
Chemical digestion
-Breaks large molecules into small molecules using enzymes.
moth/teeth
-Break food into small pieces
tongue
-Taste
-Pushes food against teeth
and mixes w/ saliva
Epiglottis
-Covers trachea during swallowing
Esophagus
-takes food from mouth to stomach
-parastalsis starts
Small intestine
-Finishes all chemical digestion
-absorbs small molecules into villi-int. juice
Large intestine
-Reabsorbes water(+vitamins)
-Forms Feces
Rectum
-Temperary feces
STORAGE
Anus
-Release Feces(egestion)
Salvary Glands
-Secretes Saliva-breaks starch into simple sugars
Liver
-Makes Bile
Gall bladder
-Stores Bile
Pancreas
-Secretes pancreatic in small intestines
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taylor2013
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Mouth to Getting rid of waste(end)with fuctions
Updated
2010-02-01T23:31:59Z
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