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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.