The Digestive System And The Function Of The Digestive System

The digestive system is also known as the alimentary canal from the mouth to the anus.

Use the information found below to guide your research and to design your model. Guiding questions are broken down by assignment. Take notes, answer questions, and complete sketches in your laboratory journal.

Main components in the digestive system include the teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, small intestine, stomach, and pancreas..The function is to digest food.

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 structure of the digestive system consists of organs that help break down food, absorb nutrients, and eliminate wastes. Organs that contribute to the breakdown of food include the mouth, esophagus, and stomach as well as the pancreas and gallbladder. Nutrients are absorbed through the small intestine, and remaining waste is eliminated through the large intestine and

The Alimentary Canal is a system which contains different sections and organs that work together to digest substances. Food substances pass through the alimentary canal which starts at the mouth and eventually ends up at the anus. Ingestion is the consumption of a substance through the mouth e.g. eating or drinking. The mouth increases surface area for chemical digestion as Salivary glands produce Saliva which contains amylase to breakdown starch. Saliva also contains mineral salts to keep PH constant and Mucin to make food slimy and easier to pass down the oesophagus. Peristalsis is the movement of food by coordinated involuntary muscle contractions. Peristalsis is used in the oesophagus, stomach, and intestines to transport food.

In the digestive system, SGLT1(sodium-glucose transporter type 1), GLUT2 (glucose transporter type 2), GLUT4 (glucose transporter type 4) are transporters involved in the absorption of glucose.

The digestive system has a track that is about nine meters long. The ten main organs in this system are the mouth, oesophagus, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, and the anus. Throughout the digestive system food that we eat is broken down, nutrients we need are absorbed from this, and the waste materials left at the end are eliminated.

The proses of the digestive tract are very complex and difficult to understand. There is a lot of chemistry that ties into the digestion system. There is multiple part of the digestive tract that all have different role helping the body to digestive nurturance. Most people when asked think that the stomach is the place where it all starts but they would be wrong. People also think the that the stomach is the most important but if it comes down to it that with out any part of this complex system the digestion could not take place.

For this weeks assignment I chose to write about the mouth. In the case of the digestion system, everything starts in the mouth. The mouth, is where the food in most cases, enters the body and begins to digest. The chunks of food after being in the mouth get chew into smaller chunks, and mix with liquid from the salivary glands and from other food and beverages in order to be swallowed, and to move on down the pharynx. This process is called a bolus. In order to avoid choking the epiglottis shuts the airway, by doing this the food is also able to not enter the lungs.

Digestion occurs mainly in the gut, formally known as the gastrointestinal (GI) system. Organs in the GI system include the stomach, small and large intestines as well as accessory organs such as the liver, gall bladder and pancreas. Accessory organs are known to provide secretions into the GI tract. These secretions include digestive juices that enter the gut by glands, including salivary glands, gastric glands in the stomach wall, pancreas and wall of the small intestine. Gastrin is a peptide hormone that stimulates secretion of gastric acid by the parietal cells of the stomach and helps gastric motility (Dimaline and Varro, 2014). It is important due to acid production in the stomach for dissolving and digesting some foods and is essential for normal cell growth in the stomach lining, walls of small intestine and colon.

The digestive system consists of series of connected organs that together allow the body to break down and absorb food, and remove waste.

The digestive system begins with the mouth and extends through the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine, ending with the rectum and anus. It’s a made up gastrointestinal that tracts the liver, pancreas, and gallbladder. The digestive system helps the body to digest food in it.

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