Summary Bricks Biology Chapter 3.4 Organizing digestion

§3.4 Organizing digestion


Organ
Function Digestive What is Other
juice? digested remarks?
here?

Oral Cavity Both Saliva produced Starch Make our food
mechanical in the salivary easier to swallow
and chemical glands
digestion

Oesophagus Moves food - The digestion of There is
from the Oral Starch Peristalsis, a
Cavity towards continues muscular
your stomach movement that
occurs in the
intestines. With
this movement
the food is
pushed through
the digestive
tract.

Stomach Takes food The digestive Proteins Here go the
from the juice of the Gastric acids
Oesophagus stomach is called (they destroy
mixes it, the Gastric Juice. germs and
breaks it down bacteria, mucosal
and passes it lining protects the
to the thick muscular
Duodenum. wall). *
Storage for
food for 2 - 4
hours. Both
Mechanical
and chemical
DIGESTION

Duodenum Absorption of - All that starts - *
vitamins, before, so
minerals and Carbohydrates,
other nutrients. Proteins and
Pancreatic Fats
duct and Bile
duct open in
here

Liver Filters all the It produces a None It purifies the
blood in the juice called Bile. blood containing



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