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Digestion, Nutrient Absorption
stomachs and stuff
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
12/18/2012

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3 main sources of energy are:
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Fats, carbohydrates and proteins
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Fish and humans have similar alimentary systems in that...
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The ureter and kidney system is separate from the digestive system
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Batch Reactor
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pulsed fashion of work, with processing of components and elimination before new components brought in. Primarily used in coelenterates
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Continuous-flow, stirred-tank reactor
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Hollow tubular cavity with continuous processing mixing into homegeneous mass. Overflow passes on.
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Plug-flow reactor
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bolus of food passes along a tube-like structure with continuous digestion and varying composition according to position
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Many animals have a...
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combination of continuous-flow and plug-flow reactors with chemical digestion in the stomuch and small intestine as plug-flow
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Food is subjected to...
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Chemical, mechanical and bacterial treatments prior to absorption
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The gut is characterized by...
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Travel of material in single direction through regions with specialized tasks
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Headgut is involved in..
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Feeding and swallowing, with certain anatomical associations such as teeth/tongue. Common pathway with gas exchange = valves. Chemoreception (taste buds) occurs here.
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Digestion aids in headgut...
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Saliva, mucin, enzymes, anticoagulants
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Foregut involved in...
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Conduction of food to stomach. May contain a crop and gizzard. Includes stomach for storage and mechanical mixing.
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Digestion aids in the foregut are...
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Pepsinogen, pepsin and HCl as protein digestion occurs here
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A crop is a...
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Storage area
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A gizzard is...
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also known as a proventriculus and has grinding structures. 
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monogastric stomach has...
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Sphincters at the entrance and exit, and a single sac
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HCl is secreted by...
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parietal cells
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Pepsinogen is secreted by...
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Chief cells
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Digastric stomachs...
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Have two divisions and four chambers
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Rumination is...
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Partially digested food being regurgitated through esophagus for second chewing before passing into 2nd division of digastric stomach
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In the rumen of a digastric stomach, digestion is primarily achieved by...
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Bacterial fermentation
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Digastric stomachs only secrete digestive enzymes in the...
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Abomasum, a compartment of the second division.
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Invertebrates without stomaches digest and absorb food by...
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outpouchings with enzyme-secreting cells plus phagocytic cells.
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The Malphigian tubules...
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allow for the alimentary system of insects to function for water and electrolytes
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The midgut...
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Involved in the chemical digestion of proteins, fats and carbohydrates as well as absorption. Recieves ducts from liver and pancrease.
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Livers secrete...
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Bile, to emulsify fats and to neutralize acids
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Pancreas secrete...
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Alkaline juice and important enzymes
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Carnivores have...
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Short midguts
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The infolding of the intestine is known as...
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Villi and microvilli
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The Hindgut...
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Involved in storage and absorption of water and ions. Fermentation occurs here in some herbivores.
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Plug-flow reactors are the hindgut fermenters in...
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large animals
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Continuous flow-reactors with an enlarged cecum is involved in hindgut fermentation of...
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small herbivores
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In many vertebrates, the hindgut ends in the...
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cloaca
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In annelids, tunicates and cephalochordates alimentary canal movement is achieved by...
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Cilia
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Arthropods and chordates achieve alimentary motility through...
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Muscle contractions
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Peristalsis is..
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the coordinated contraction of longitudinal and circular muscle with a direction of movement
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Segmentation is...
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a muscular movement with no direction controlled by circular muscles. Good for mixing and kneading. 
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The esophagus is controlled by...
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The central nervous system
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The GI Tract excluding the esophagus is...
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myogenic, therefore intrinsically controlled via smooth muscle.
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Basic Electrical Rhythm
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Modulated by local stimulations such as mechanical stretching or chemical stimulation by chyme. Stretch induces action potentials
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chyme is...
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A semi fluid mass of partially digested food
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The nervous system of the GI tract is known as the...
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Enteric nervous system, with only part of the peripheral NS being capable of local autonomous function
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The enteric nervous system can be in part controlled by...
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extrinsic measures via hormones/chemical stimulation (Gastrointestinal peptides/chyme) and the ANS (Sympathetic and parasympathetic NSs)
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Endocrine glands...
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secrete hormones to the circulatory system
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Exocrine glands...
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secrete digestive enzymes, water, mucus and electrolytes into the lumen of the GI tract
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A mammalian salivary gland is an example of...
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Exocrine function
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The acinar portion of the mammalian salivary gland...
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forms/requires mucin, amylase, water via osmosis, and electrolytes
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The duct portion of the mammalian salivary gland...
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Involved in further modification of secretions
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Secretion can be controlled by...
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Presence of food in various compartments, chemoreception, ANS, endocrine cells and hormones
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Cephalic Phase...
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Occurs before food enters the stomach. Based on sight, smell etc.
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Gastric phase...
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Based on peptide response, stretch receptors and ANS stimulation
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Gastrin is...
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secreted in the gastric phase, stimulating HCl and pepsinogen secretion
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The intestinal phase...
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Response of the duodenum to chyme
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Gastric inhibitory peptide...
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Secreted in the intestinal phase in response to fatty acids to inhibit pepsinogen and HCl secrtion
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Secretin...
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secreted in the intestinal phase to stimulate pancrease and inhibit the stomach
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SGLT1
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The sodium/glucose cotransporter from intestinal lumen to epithelial cells
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GLUT5
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Fructose facilitated transporter
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GLUT2
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Facilitates transport from the intestinal lumen to epithelial cells for various sugars
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The levels of Na and K in the intestinal lumen and epithelial cells of the intestine is regulated by...
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An energy dependent basolateral pump
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Absorption of monoglycerides, fatty acids and glycerols occurs by...
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Diffusion
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Triglycerides are broken down during diffusion and...
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Resynthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum
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Chylomicrons...
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Small fat droplets formed in the Golgi before undergoing exocytosis
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Lymph (involved in fat) is located in...
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the intercellular space to become blood later
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Essential amino acids are...
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Those that cannot be synthesized by an organism
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Electrolytes are...
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Metals for enzymes, cofactors, involved in redox reactions, oxygen transport and shells bones. Charged ions that must be taken up and may be trace elements.
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Vitamins
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Diverse and chemically unrelated organic substance group required in small quantities and function primarily as cofactors for enzymes.
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