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| title | author | date | geometry |
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| BIOL01113 Vocabulary Assignment 8 | Aidan Sharpe | March 17th, 2025 | margin=1in |
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.