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IV Science Guts and Food

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  • What does bile do?
    It helps to break fats.
  • What does the liver produce? (It starts with B......)
    Bile.
  • What does the large intestine do?
    It absorbes water back into the body.
  • What do you call the waste material that passes through the rectum and the anus? It starts with F.
    faeces.
  • What is the best temperature for enzymes?
    37°C
  • In what part of the body does digestion start?
    In the mouth
  • Where is hydrochloric acid produced?
    In the cells of the stomach.
  • What is the substrate that is present on bread?
    Starch.
  • How do the words that are enzymes end ?
    'ase' (amylase /amileis/, proteases /proutieiz/ , lipase /laipeiz/ )
  • What is the purpose of saliva?
    It contains enzymes that start to break up large starch molecules.
  • What is the product after starch is broken?
    Sugar
  • What parts of the body produce digestive juices that are in the mouth, in the stomach and in the intestine?
    Glands
  • What does pancreas produce?
    More enzymes.
  • What is a substrate?
    The nutrient that an enzyme works on (e.g.: starch)
  • How are big molecules broken into smaller ones?
    By special proteins called enzymes.
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