LooseLeaf for Human Anatomy
LooseLeaf for Human Anatomy
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ISBN: 9781259285271
Author: Michael McKinley Dr., Valerie O'Loughlin, Elizabeth Pennefather-O'Brien
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To determine:

The reason for the presence of so many mucin-producing glands along the length of the GI tract.

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The digestive system includes the organs that ingest the food, mix and transport the ingested material, digest the material into smaller usable components, absorb the necessary digested nutrients into the blood and expel the waste products from the body. The digestive system has two separate categories of organs: those composing the GI tract, and the accessory digestive organs

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