Taking a Look at the Digestive System

After dissecting the rat, we learned that the rat’s body has many complex systems. To begin, the digestive system contains a group of organs that work together to convert food taken in from the body and converts it to energy and basic nutrients to feed the cells in the body. The digestive system includes the mouth, pyloric valve or sphincter, caecum, small intestine, colon (large intestine), duodenum, retrum, and stomach. The salivary glands, liver, and pancreas are glands that are laid outside of the digestive system, but they are associated with contributing to the system’s function. The mouth processes the food so that it is easier to swallow. From the mouth, it moves to the back of the mouth.

Thrush is an infection that is located in the mouth and throat that causes white pumps in the mouth. The cause for thrush is a type of fungal known as candida albicans. Symptoms can include pain when swallowing, bad breath, and bad taste. Treatment for thrush are medication to treat the fungus, and also eating unflavored yogurt can

We start with the mouth, in the feature, I am chewing on a bit of bread from a sandwich, the sandwich softens up two distinct ways, mechanical and concoction absorption. Mechanically, teeth are utilized to bite sustenance into little pieces and blend it with salivation with the tongue's assistance. The tongue then sends this pounded up sandwich down the throat to the stomach. Synthetically, Salivary organs in the mouth produce spit, containing the protein amylase to separate starch, is blended with sustenance, making it gentler and smoother prepared for its adventure down to the stomach.

Discover how the human digestive system works - one of the most important systems in the human body. Learn what each part does, and then see how much you remember with a quick quiz.

The digestive system is very important in digesting food and breaking it down so it can be digested easily. The digestive system turns food into energy. Throughout the process there are nutrients which are absorbed. There are many things that contributed to the digestive system such as the mouth which produces saliva which helps to break down food and nutrients such as carbohydrates with the help of an enzyme called amylase. The major food groups which are called macro nutrients include carbohydrates, proteins and fats. All of these nutrients play an important role in the body. There are also many micro-nutrients which include vitamins and minerals which provide the body with health and well-being. The digestive system is made up of the mouth, which includes the teeth (the teeth are used to cut and grind food into smaller pieces, they contain blood vessels and nerves), tongue (the tongue is a muscle that has a rough surface including the taste buds), salvia glands (they produce salvia which moistens the food to make is easier to digest), the pharynx (this helps the food travel to the stomach, the pharynx also plays an important role in the respiratory system. It also contains 2 different flaps to separate the 2 functions), esophagus (this connects the pharynx to the stomach and transports chewed food to the stomach), stomach (this is a muscle that is

The atmosphere is a layer of gases that cover the earth. It is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% of other small elements such as argon and carbon dioxide. Humans use oxygen to perform cellular respiration and plants use carbon dioxide to perform photosynthesis.

The digestive system is a group of organs working together to convert food into energy. The food digested is also tied into basic nutrients to feed the body. The digestive system is something called the tube within a tube. This is because it is a hollow structure with two openings that run the height of your body. The digestive tract consists of two parts the gastrointestinal tract known as GI tract and a set of accessory organs. GI tract starting at the oral cavity, through abdominal cavity and end at the anus. Major accessory organs include pancreas, liver, and gallbladder. There are 5 basic processes the digestive system have. The processes include and ingestion, mixing digestion, absorption, and defecation. Ingestion is the first step which is when the food and liquids are taken in the mouth and eaten. Mixing is when the smooth muscles in the walls of the GI tract mixes the food and send it through the tract. Next is digestion where the food is broken down by mechanical and chemical processes. Absorption is the epithelial

The digestive system is made up of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract—also called the digestive tract—and the liver, pancreas, and gallbladder. The GI tract is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus. The hollow organs that make up the GI tract are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine—which includes the rectum—and anus. Food enters the

This is me, Beth Cooper. I have been shrunk again to the size of 8 microns only. In my mini-sub, I am now entering into the mouth of a 55 years old man. He just had a lot of junk food including Hamburger, French Fries and Root beer (which is my carrier as well). It is amazing to see that the digestion process has already started in the mouth of this man. The food has been broken down in to swallow able portions during chewing process. Bits of French fries coupled with beer are still present in his mouth and enzymes are acting on this food. It is the saliva which acts as the first digestive reactor, secreted through salivary glands.

The primary function of the stomach is for storage of ingested food during the consumption of a meal, and then regulating its release into the duodenum (Smith & Morton 2001) at a rate that is optimal for digestion and absorption to occur. Moreover, the stomach has two other functions namely: Secretion of HCl and enzymes to begin the digestive process, and the production of chyme – the only form in which stomach contents can be emptied into the stomach. (Sherwood

Most of us think that the process that takes place in our stomach after we eat a meal it’s very easy and simple when the truth is that it’s a very complex process. The process of digestion starts even with the simple thought of food, after that the body starts preparing the stomach for the food that is about to be eaten. The food goes then through our mouth into our stomach, where is digested and dumped into the intestines to be thrown away. In order for our stomach to digest the food completely, it has to go through three different stages and that’s where the process of digestion occurs. The first stage it’s called cephalic phase, in this stage or phase, the brain perceives any sight, smell or taste of food, sending impulses to the brainstem

Interdependence means that all of the systems need all of the other systems. They rely on one another for many different things. Most jobs in the body need the support of 2 or more organ systems to function. Cellular respiration is how our body takes food and oxygen and turns it into energy. We need our respiratory system to take in the oxygen , we need our circulatory system to deliver the oxygen to the muscles and we need the digestive system to break the food down into nutrients like glucose. The digestive system is responsible for breaking down food into molecules small enough to be used by the body's cells and tissues. The food is broken apart through chewing and stomach churning, but also chemically. Both digestive and excretory systems

Over the course of time there have been many difficult questions and theories about everyday life. Using physiology & chemistry, those questions have been able to be answered. From the mixture of gases in the air we breathe to the organic substance of plastic or paper, chemistry can be seen everywhere. However, most people mistook the power of chemistry in our own bodies. How is it that a simple slice of bread, once consumed, can turn into fuel for the human body? Using the digestive system and its many organs through the process of digestion and metabolism is how our bodies receive the energy it needs to continue on throughout the day and the rest of our lives. Chemistry then kicks in as food starts

All animals and humans have a digestive system. The purpose of a digestive system is to digest and absorb. Digestion is the process by which food is broken down into small molecules, these small molecules are then absorbed into the body. The digestive system has two main parts, the digestive tract and accessory organs. According to Cliffs notes (https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/anatomy-and-physiology/the-digestive-system/function-of-the-digestive-system) the digestive system has seven main processes. Ingestion; Propulsion; Secretion; Mechanical digestion; Chemical digestion; Absorption; Defection. All seven of processes are important in order for the digestive system to work.

Being a human we need to eat, sleep and do some work. By eating we take some energy in our body and by the exercise 's we do some metabolic steps to break the food. The food we take in our body is large pieces of different contents in form of fat, carbohydrates and most importantly proteins.