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| digestive enzyme, breaks down starch into smaller molecules |
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| muscular tube that connects your mouth to your stomach |
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| is a series of involuteery smooth muscle contraction along the walls of the digestive tract |
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| closes over the opening to the respiratory tract as you swalllow, preventing food from entering |
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| muscular pouchlike enlargement of the digestive tract |
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| enzyme that begins the chemical digestion of protiens in food. |
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| a muscular tube about 6 m long. (diameter: 2.5 cm) |
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| soft, flattened, gland that secrets both digestuve enzymes and hormones |
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| large, complex, organ that has has many functions |
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| chemical substance that helps rbeak down fats |
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| a small organ where bile is stored |
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| a single projection in the lining of small intestine that fuctions in the absorption of digested food |
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| muscular tube that is also called the colon. (1.5 m long) (6.5 cm in diameter) |
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| last part of the dgestive system |
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