The digestive organs
7 important questions on The digestive organs
Tell what happens from the oral cavity to the oesophagus (gullet)
By what are the nasal cavity and uvula closed off?
Why does the stomach also have a role as temporary storage area?
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Gastric glands in the stomach wall produce gastric juices what consists it of?
What is bile and it's function?
- Contains no enzymes
- emulsifies fats so that enzymes can get at the fats better
- breaks the large fat globules up into small fat droplets
What benefits the fact that the walls of the intestinal villi are very tin?
- Water containing digestion products and nutrients can pass through the intestinal wall and be absorbed into the blood in the capillaries.
What makes the mass of undigested food in the large intestine thicker? What would happen if it didn't happen?
If not you would lose too much water and become dehydrated. (diarrhea)
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