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Quiz Question
1. The lower GI starts at the pyloric sphincter of the stomach, and finishes at this opening.
2. The common hepatic duct joins this duct, to connect with the gallbladder.
3. The second stage of digestion begins in the stomach, where food is further broken down by mixing with gastric acid, until it passes into this first part of the small intestine.
4. When the waste material changes into the semi-solids, which pass to the large intestine, the bacteria in the gut what, break down residual proteins and starches?
5. The epiglottis guards the entrance of this, the opening between the vocal folds.
6. Vitamin B12 is carried, bound to a glycoprotein, secreted by the salivary glands, called this, which protects the vitamin from the acidic stomach contents.
7. The epiglottis is a flap of cartilage, covered with mucous membrane, attached to the entrance of this.
8. The serous fluid is produced by serous glands, in the submandibular salivary glands, which also produce this lipase.
9. The liver synthesises the bulk of lipoproteins. In lipid metabolism, the liver synthesises cholesterol, and fats are produced in this process.
10. On the medial surface of the mandible, the only moveable bone of the skull, is this foramen, which is the entrance of a nerve and vessels that supply the lower jaw.
11. The muscles of what, aid in digestion, because they are responsible for the chewing movement of the mandible.
12. A branch from the abdominal aorta is the superior what artery, which supplies the regions of the digestive tract, derived from the midgut?
13. They are laid down in the inner surface of the primary cell wall, conferring physical and mechanical properties, alone and together with elastin, in the elastic fibres.
14. In the pharynx, which joins the oesophagus at the oesophageal inlet, it pushes the food into the oesophagus.
15. At either side of the soft palate are muscles, which raise the back of the tongue, and also close both sides of the fauces, to enable food to be swallowed.
16. The hindgut includes the distal 1/3 of the transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, rectum, and the anus, above this line.
17. At the same time that protein is being digested, mechanical churning occurs, through the action of these waves of muscular contractions, that move along the stomach wall.
18. The anal what, or cytoprocts, are structures in some single-celled eukaryotes, where waste is ejected, after the nutrients from food have been absorbed into the cytoplasm?
19. These contractions act to mix, and move the chyne more slowly in the small intestine, allowing more time for absorption.
20. This is the largest lymphoid organ in the body, that breaks down both red and white blood cells that are spent.
21. Lipase digests these, which are broken down into two fatty acids, and a monoglyceride, then absorbed by ville on the intestinal wall.
22. The tast buds are innervated by a branch of the facial nerve, the chorda what, and the glossopharyngeal nerve.
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