What happens to digestive enzymes after they havedone their job? What happens to dead epithelial cells thatslough off the gastrointestinal mucosa? Explain.

Q: Many species of hindgut fermenters, including horses, eat their feces to a greater extent when they…

A: Horses are large domesticated mammals. There are some horses that live in the wild. The wild horses…

Q: Explain how bile aids the digestive process even though it contains no enzymes

A: Bio-molecule that we taken up from food can not be use by the body directly or in the original…

Q: Why doesn’t gastric juice destroy the stomach cells that make it? Identify the cells making up the…

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Q: If the salivary glands were unable to secrete amylase, what effect wouldDoes this have an effect on…

A: The biological catalysts that speed up the biochemical reactions are called “enzymes”. They act on…

Q: Which are the most important digestive components of bile?

A: The digestion process stands for the method where the large insoluble food materials are broken down…

Q: Some of the intestinal epithelial cells, called goblet cells, contain small globules of mucus. Why…

A: SMALL INTESTINE The small intestine is the largest part of the Gastrointestinal tract. All the…

Q: Since pepsin is a gastric enzyme does it have an acid or basic optimum pH? What happens to pepsin…

A: Enzymes are the biocatalyst that catalyzes the biochemical reactions or processes by lowering the…

Q: How does bile help in the digestion of fats?

A: The digestive system consists of organs that convert the food which is consumed into energy and…

Q: Why do peptic ulcers typically occur in the stomach or duodenum, but not in the rest of the small…

A: Stomach is a part of the alimentary canal where large amount of food under goes digestion. It…

Q: Some agents that cause diarrhea increase peristalsis of the intestine. Explain how medications that…

A: Peristalsis is the wave-like movement to conduct the movement of food through the digestive system.…

Q: What is the main function of bile salt?

A: Bile salts are prepared in the Liver and stored in Gall Bladder.

Q: Why would you not want to completely suppress HCl secretion in the stomach?

A: Answer: Introduction: Small amount of hydrochloric acid may do a deep impact on the body's…

Q: What structures are responsible for the large surface area of thesmall intestine?

A: Small intestine is present inferior to the stomach. It is divided into three parts namely duodenum,…

Q: What happens to bile salts once they have entered the liver?

A: Different organs and glands are involved in the digestion process that helps in digesting the food…

Q: How would removal of 95% of the stomach (subtotal gastrec-tomy) to treat severe ulcers or cancer…

A: Ans: Stomach: The muscular organ of the body located above abdomen on left side is referred to as…

Q: Gastric ceca produce digestive enzymes and secrete them into the stomach. How many ceca are there?

A: The midgut (called the Mesenteron in certain books) runs from the 'gastric caeca', a progression of…

Q: When you eat a baked potato with bacon pieces and butter on top, where will the components be…

A: Baked potatoes provide carbohydrates (starch), bacon is a rich source of animal protein and butter…

Q: What will happen to pancreatic enzyme if they were introduced into stomach?

A: Pancreatic enzymes are the commercial mixture of lipase, protease and amylase. They help in the…

Q: Disorders of the digestive system often disrupt many aspects of homeostasis. Explain why?

A: Homeostasis is the condition of consistent inner, physical, and substance conditions kept up by…

Q: What is the function of enteroendocrine cells?

A: Enteroendocrine cells produce a range of gut hormones that have key roles in the coordination of…

Q: How does the mucosa of the large intestine differ fromthat of the small intestine? How does the…

A: Assemblage of organs through which the food is broken down and converted into energy is called as…

Q: Why Pepsin is not essential for protein digestion?

A: The digestion of food begins in the mouth. The food is broken down into simpler substances and…

Q: What molecule is the source of the hydrogen ions that are secreted into gastric juice?

A: Answer- There are many different digestive enzymes and other molecules that are released in our…

Q: Why doesn’t the high concentration of H1 in the stomach lumen destroy the lining of the stomach…

A: The Stomach has digestive juices and HCl in the lumen of the stomach. The Hydrochloric acid  helps…

Q: function of bile

A: Liver: The major organ which is found only in vertebrates is called Liver . This organ performs many…

Q: Why are Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis called inflammatory bowel diseases?

A: Any section of a person's digestive tract, from the mouth to the anus, might develop Crohn's…

Q: What is the functional unit of liver? What are the liver cells called?

A: The liver is an organ that is found in vertebrates and functions to detoxify metabolites, protein…

Q: What is bile? What are the constituents of bile in terms of the following: Organic and Inorganic…

A: Bile is a digestive fluid. Bile juice is secreted by the liver and stored in the gall bladder. Bile…

Q: Will the salivary enzymes get access to the starch from the broken potato cells only? What obstacles…

A: Starch is a biopolymer of glucose. In plants, the primary storage form of glucose is starch. Tubers…

Q: What are the inorganic constituents of bile?

A: Bile is a steroid acid component, which is solely produced by the organ liver in order to break down…

Q: How many major types of cells gastric glands have? Explain.

A: The inner membrane of the stomach contains some glands, known as gastric glands. The gastric glands…

Q: What is the danger of excessive amount of cholesterol in bile? Explain why.

A: Cholesterol is a waxy molecule that may be present in both your blood and cells. The majority of the…

Q: What are the cells responsible for producing bile? What is the duct that transfer bike into…

A: Bile is a dark, yellowish-green, alkaline, bitter taste fluid formed by the liver cells. Bile helps…

Q: How different areintracellular and extracellulardigestion? What is theevolutionary advantage…

A: Digestion is a process through which the raw food that we eat is digested with the help of enzymes…

Q: how does the body keep the stomach acid from seeping into the intestines and the other parts of the…

A: The digestive system consists of digestive tract which starts from the mouth and ends with an anus.…

Q: What is the action of salivary amylase? Differentiate between lipases and peptidases?

A: Enzymes are biological catalysts. They decrease the activation energy of the reaction. They help in…

Q: Some people who have gallstones experience pain after they eat, with fatty meals causing the…

A: The human digestive system consists of various organs staring from the mouth to the anus that helps…

Q: Which is more efficient in propelling intestinal contents from one place to another—peristalsis or…

A: The small digestive system is a significant organ for assimilation and retention of supplements. In…

Q: How would it affect the digestion of proteins if there is blockade in the pancreatic duct?

A: Pancreas is a heterocrine gland. It produces hormones as well as enzymes. It has Islets of…

Q: In which part of alimentary canal does absorption of water, simple sugarsand alcohol takes place?

A: Absorption is the process by which the end products of digestion pass through the intestinal mucosa…

Q: why does the human body get stomach ulcers?

A: Stomach is a part of the alimentary canal where large amount of food under goes digestion. It…

Q: People who experience malabsorption frequently have the most difficulty digesting Considering the…

A: Malabsorption is considered a disorder, which occurs due to the lack of absorption of nutrients by…

Q: What are the components of bile? Which component is mostly responsible for fat emulsification?

A: Liver is an organ which helps in the metabolism and production of different proteins, which helps in…

Q: How is it produced andwhat is the function of gastrinin the digestive process?

A: Introduction: Gastrin is a peptide hormone known to stimulate the parental cells present in the…

Q: why is there a need for sphincters in the stomach? what will happen otherwise?

A: Sphincters are bands of smooth muscle that separate sections of the digestive tract throughout the…

Q: Does digestion in the GI tract take place extracellularly (outside the cells) or intracellularly…

A: The GI tract is a series of hollow organs which are joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth…

Q: How does the pancreaticjuice participate in thedigestion of proteins? Whatare the involved enzymes?

A: Digestion is a catabolic process that involves breakdown of complex food substances into simpler…

Q: What would happen to a person whose body did not produce bile ?

A: Bile is the fluid which is synthesized and secreted by liver and stored in the gallbladder.  Main…