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What are the changes in pH as food passes through your digestive system?
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∙ 11y ago
In the mouth, you have a pH of 7, in which amylase(the enzyme in saliva) works well with a pH near to 7. As you swallow the food, it gets passed into your stomach, which has a pH of 2. The low pH in the stomach helps digestion take place. Pepsin, the main enzyme in the stomach, works well with a pH of an acidic solution. Then the food gets passed into the small intestine. Here the pH is a slightly basic 8. The digestive fluids that surround the food, such as bicarbonate ion, work well in a slightly basic solution. The food has been split up into small enough molecules now and is ready to be passed absorbed into your bloodstream.
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Where does phlegm go when a baby coughs it up then swallows it?
It just mixes with the contents of your stomach and passes through the digestive system. Some of it is digested and taken up into the body while some of it passes through to be eliminated from the body with stool.
Main function of the digestive system?
The main function of the digestive system is to get the food and water you drink through your body.
What does air move through which is part of the digestive system?
the lungs and respiratory system
What are some examples of the digestive muscle?
The digestive system comprises of organs that work together in order to ensure that food is properly processed through the body. Examples of such organs include the stomach and the intestines.
What other systems does the digestive system depend on?
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Organs that passes through the digestive system are?
they are called the cells
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it comes out the other end
What nutrient molecule passes through the wall of the digestive system into the blood?
the answer is the large intestine
What is the path a starch molecule takes as it passes through the digestive system?
Twerk team
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it is digested and is stored as fat.
What food type passes through the digestive system without being used up?
Fibre
How do food passes through the digestive system starting at the mouth?
It goes down the esophagus and into the stomach.
When food passes through the digestive system sugar passes in to the blood stream... where and how does this happen?
This occurs in the small intestine by deffusion into the blood stream.
What nutritional value does gold contain?
It has no nutritional value and is ignored by the digestive system and passes through if ingested.
Does the digestive system work with excretory system?
Yes. What isn't digested in the digestive system passes to the excretory system.
What is the pathway food travels through in the digestive system in order?
first the food passes through your esophagus then to your small intestines and then your large intestines
Where are nutrients absorbed into the blood through the walls of?
It passes through the wall of the digestive system, then into the blood.
