Where are two sources of amylase? What does Amylase do?
Saliva, and the pancrease. Amylase breaks down starch into maltose (poly saccharide into disaccharides)
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What is gastrin? Where does it come from, what does it do?
Produced in the stomach, increases esophageal sphincter tone, sectretions form gastric pits and mixing waves in the stomach. decreases pyloric sphincter tone
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What is the skeletal muscle that controls breathing?
the diaphragm
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What stores excess glucose as glycogen?
d. the liver
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list 6 of the accessory organs of the digestive systems
salivary glands, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, vermiform appendix, (teeth and tongue)
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What is Chyme?
a mixture of the bolus and gastric juices
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List 8 parts of the Alimentary canal (or tract)
mouth pharynx esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, anus
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What are rugae?
folds in the stomach
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What is the difference between fat and water soluble vitamins?
excess Water soluble(C, b group, biotin, folic acid)are removed through the kidneys. excess fat soluble(A, D, E and K) aren't
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what makes you cough?
something other than air passing over the larynx
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What structure has endocrine and exocrine functions?
pancreas
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What is intrinsic factor?
a chemical secreted by the gastric glands that allows your body to absorb B12.
