Diagram/schematize the route of the food in your digestive tract (desbribe the main compartments

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Chapter7: How The Body Uses Food: Digestion And Absorption
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With the two menus you will get, answer the four questions below:

Menu 1: Roasted chicken with mashed potatoes (mostly proteins and carbohydrates)

Menu 2: Pasta with alfredo saude and cheese (mostly carbohydrates, dairy products and lipids)

Q1. Diagram/schematize the route of the food in your digestive tract (desbribe the main compartments).

Q2. Indicate the type of movement or mechanical digestion in each of the compartments.

Q3. Describe the steps in the chemical digestion of the main constituents of your meal (name the enzyme (s) and other secretions involved, and what cells secrete them), all of that from the beginning to the end of digestion.

Q4. Clearly indicate where nutrient absorption takes place

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