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