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Lecture Topic 19
The Digestive System
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
12/02/2009

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Digestive System
Definition
System of organs for acquiring and processing food.
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Components of a healthy, nutritional Diet
Definition
1. Source of Chemical energy
2. Building blocks to make complex organic compounds
3.Other essential nutrients and materials that we cannot synthesize on our own.
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Essential Amino Acids from Corn and other grains
Definition
Methionine, Valine, Threonine, Phenylalanine, Leucine, Isoleucine
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Essential Amino Acids from Beans and other legumes
Definition
Valine, Threonine, Phenylalanine, Leucine, Isoleucine, Typtophan, Lysine
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How are proteins we eat used?
Definition
Sources of amino acids and energy.
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Vitamins
Definition
Organic compounds we need but cannot synthesize on our own.
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What are the four stages of the digestive system?
Definition
Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, and Elimination.
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How do we ingest?
Definition
Through the mouth.
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Digestion in the mouth
Definition
*teeth for mechanical digestion
*saliva for chemical digestion
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Saliva
Definition
amylase, mucin, buffers, antibacterial agents(such as lysozyme)
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From the mouth, where does the partially digested food go?
Definition
the bolus enters the throat region aka the pharynx
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The pharynx leads to two seperate passageways...
Definition
*trachea-to the lungs
*esophogus-to stomach
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Epiglottis
Definition
a flap of cartilage that is a gatekeeper for the trachea and esophogus.
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How does the bolus move through the esophagus?
Definition
perstalisis-rythmic contractions of the muscles
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What goes on in the stomach?
Definition
some nutrient absorption, but mostly digestion.
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Sphincters
Definition
movement into and out of the stomach is controlled by these muscular valves
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What acids are in the stomach?
Definition
HCl and pepsin (a protease) -pH of stomach juices is 2 (very acidic)
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What is the first type of cell type in the gastric glands of the stomach?
Definition
Mucus cells secrete mucus (protective lubricant)
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What is the second cell type in the gastic glands of the stomach?
Definition
parietal cells secrete H+ and and Cl- ions (active transport and facilitated diffusion). HCl formed from these components in the stomach.
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What is the third cell type in the gastric glands of the stomach?
Definition
Cheif cells secrete pepsinogen which converted to pepsin by acid in the stomach.
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Where does most of the digestion occur?
Definition
The small intestine (nutrient absorption still takes place).
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How long is the small intestine?
Definition
6 meters worth of tubing.
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Pancreas
Definition
bicarbonate, proteases, amylase, nucleases.
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Galbladder
Definition
store and concentrate bile made by liver
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Liver
Definition
Bile for emulsifying lipids. Liver also important for detox and for destroying defective red blood cells.
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Small intestine- The folding of the inner lining into ________, and that surface into ___________, which results in _______________ m^2 of surface area to facilitate the absorption.
Definition
villi; microvilli; 300
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Colon
Definition
absorption of water during digestion
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Rectum
Definition
Storage of waste until it is eliminated through the anus
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Cecum
Definition
In herbivores, houses bacteria that digest cellulose in plant cell wa;ls.
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