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+title: BIOL01113 Vocabulary Assignment 8
+author: Aidan Sharpe
+date: March 17th, 2025
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+# Ingestion
+The act of taking in food.
+
+# Mechanical Digestion
+Breaking down food with mechanical force (chewing).
+
+# Chemical Digestion
+Breaking down food with chemicals.
+
+# Absorption
+The movement of a substance into a cell or through a membrane.
+
+# Esophagus
+The tube that transports food from the mouth to the stomach.
+
+# Stomach
+A sac-like organ that mixes food and gastric juices to perform chemical digestion.
+
+# Small Intestines
+The longer of the two intestines, responsible for absorbing most nutrients.
+
+# Colon
+The long tube structure of the large intestine, responsible for absorbing water.
+
+# Accessory Organs
+The accessory organs to the digestive system are pancreas, gallbladder, and liver, which are responsible for producing enzymes and chemicals to aid in metabolism.
+
+# Microbiome
+The collection of microbes living in the digestive tract that aid in the digestion process.