Digestion of Organic Compounds

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Digestion of Organic Compounds

• CP

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What is Digestion?

• Digestion
• Breakdown ingested food to acquire energy
• Chemical Digestion
• Mechanical Digestion

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Process during Digestion

• Ingestion
• Secretion
• Mixing and propulsion
• Digestions mechanical and chemical
• Absorption
• Release of Wastes

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Structures used in chewing

• Chewing by teeth
• Saliva is mixed w/ food
• contains enzyme salivary amylase
• Tongue functions to swallow food

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Path to Stomach

• Esophagus muscles move food to stomach
• Stomach
• HCL bath
• Enzyme pepsin- breakdown proteins

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Intestines

• Small Intestine Site of nutrient absorption into
  body
• Enzymes break disaccharides and dipeptides
• Large Intestine Absorption of water

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Waste products

• Anus Release waste products

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Organs that help

• Pancreas releases enzymes to SI to break
  starches, proteins, fats and nucleic acids
• Liver secrets bile to break fat, stores glycogen
• Gallbladder stores bile to send to SI
• Appendix does nothing