Exam 36: Digestion and Human Nutrition

What type of tooth pierces and tears food?

What is a cloaca?

Chyme is a mix of ____ and gastric fluid.

Four of the five answers listed below release secretions that are involved in chemical digestion. Select the exception.

The chemical digestion of carbohydrate begins in the ____.

Most stomach ulcers are caused by the bacterium ____.

Which vitamin is water soluble and cannot be stored in the body?

What raises the pH of chyme so that digestive enzymes can function in the small intestine?

To maintain their current weight, a person must balance their caloric intake with the ____.

The pancreas secretes enzymes that digest ____.

Ducts from the pancreas and gall bladder enter the ____.

Which enzyme is a pancreatic protease?

What hormone, secreted by the stomach, increases the secretion of acids by cells of the stomach lining?

Which structure is a short projection of the large intestine that serves as reservoir for beneficial bacteria?

Proteins are chemically digested into ____, which are then actively transported through brush border cells into the interstitial fluid of villi.

Chyme is formed in the ____.

Small projections found on the surface of brush border cells that increase the surface area of the small intestine are known as ____.

A main source of omega-3 fatty acids is ____.

Acidic chyme splashes into the esophagus, causing a burning pain commonly called heartburn or acid indigestion. This happens when ____.

Movement of glucose through the membranes of the small intestine occurs primarily by ____.