Digestive+system+questions-RJ

1. Name and describe the processes that occur during the digestive process. 2. What are the four layers of the GI tract? Associate an illness with each of the layers. (Describe the Illness) 3. Describe the mechanical digestion and the chemical digestion that occurs in the mouth. 4. What ordinarily prevents food from entering the nose or entering the trachea when you swallow? 5. What are the function of the stomach, and how is the wall of the stomach modified to perform these functions? 6. What are the functions of the small intestine and how is the wall of the small intestine modified to perform these functions? 7. What are the three main accessory organs that assist with the digestive process? 8. How does each accessory organ contribute to the digestion of food? 9. What are the different parts of the large intestine? 10. What are the functions of the large intestine?
 * Digestive System Book Homework (p.144-155)**
 * Ingestion, Digestion, Movement of the GI tract which moves all of the food across the digestive tract to keep the path clear for the digestive porcess**
 * Mucosa, Submucosa, Muscularis, Serosa. Peritonitis a result of an exploding appendix.**
 * Mechanically a person chews the food and the chemical is the saliva breaking down the food.**
 * The Uvella and small pallette**
 * the function of the stomach is to break down the food further from the mouth as well and it is covered with mucus to protect it from the stomach acid and the lining.**
 * the small intestine subtracts the nutrients from the food that is digested and feeds it throughout the body. it is modified by being laced with lumen which absorb the nutrients stronger.**
 * Gall Bladder, Pancreas, Liver**
 * Gall bladder-Stores bile, Pancreas-Secretes Insulin, Liver-Filters the blood with around 100,000 lobules.**
 * Cecum, vermiform appendix, colon**
 * absorbs water, absorbs vitamins produced by bacteria called intestinal flora, forms feces.**