Chapter 3 - Digestion, Absorption and Transport
Across
- 4. Manufactures enzymes to digest all energy yielding nutrients and releases bicarbonate to neutralise acid chime that enters the small intestine.
- 7. A chemical reaction in which a major reactant is split into two products, with the addition of a hydrogen atom (H) to one and a hydroxyl group (OH) to the other (from water).
- 8. When it receives the signal that fat is present in the duodenum, the __________ contracts and squirts bile through the bile duct into the duodenum.
- 10. Living micro organisms found in foods that, when consumed in sufficient quantities, are beneficial to health.
- 12. A substance with both water-soluble and fat-soluble portions that promotes the mixing of oils and fats in a watery solution.
- 14. Wavelike muscular contractions of the GI tract that push its contents along.
- 17. __________ intestine reabsorbs water and minerals; passes waste (fibre, bacteria and unabsorbed nutrients) along with water to the rectum.
- 18. A hormone secreted by cells in the stomach wall in response to food in the stomach. Target organ: the glands of the stomach. Response: secretion of gastric acid.
- 20. Fingerlike projections from the folds of the small intestine.
Down
- 1. A clear yellowish fluid that is similar to blood except that it contains no red blood cells or platelets.
- 2. A lesion of the skin or mucous membranes characterised by inflammation and damaged tissues.
- 3. __________ diffusion is when nutrients (e.g. water-soluble vitamins) require a specific carrier to transport them from one side of the cell membrane to the other.
- 5. An emulsifier that prepares fats and oils for digestion; an exocrine secretion made by the liver.
- 6. A hormone produced by cells of the intestinal wall. Target organ: the gallbladder. Response: release of bile and slowing of GI motility. Also signals the pancreas to secrete its juices, releasing bicarbonate and enzymes into the small intestine.
- 9. A hormone produced by cells in the duodenum wall in response to acidic chime in the small intestine. Target organ: the pancreas. Response: secretion of bicarbonate-rich pancreatic juice.
- 11. Secreted from the pancreas as part of the pancreatic juice, an alkaline compound with the formula HCO3.
- 13. __________ intestine secretes enzymes that digest all energy-yielding nutrients to smaller nutrient particles; cells of wall absorb nutrients into blood and lymph.
- 15. __________ diffusion is how nutrients such as water and small lipids cross into intestinal cells freely.
- 16. The semiliquid mass of partly digested food expelled by the stomach into the duodenum.
- 19. __________ transport requires energy to move nutrients against a concentration gradient.