You need to know about quite a few places in the body though:
Mouth
- Food is moistened with saliva (comtains amylase enzyme that breaks down the starch)
- Food chewed to form bolus (ball-us... caus it's a ball of food... get it?)
Oespohagus
- Tube that takes food from mouth to stomach (peristalsis)
Liver
- Where bile is produced (neutralises stomach acid to allow enzymes to work)
Gall Bladder
- Where bile is stored (then released into small intestine)
Small Intestine
- Produces protease, amylase and lipase. (to break down food and aid digestion)
- Where energy from food is absorbed out into body
Stomach
- It pummels the food with its muscular walls (grrr... so manly)
- Produces protease enzyme (called pepsin)
- Produces hydrochloric acid
- To kill bacteria
- To give the right ph for the protease enzyme to work
Pancreas
- Protease amylase and lipase are produced here. (If only there was a SMALL INTESTINE link)
Large Intestine
- Where excess water is absorbed from the food.
Anus
- Hehehehehe.
Right! The Enzymes:
Digestive enzymes break down the big molecules into the smaller ones. Like a squishy thing... um... a compactor!
Eco friendly Rubbish. Literally. |
Except it breaks down... not compacts... well... scrap that. See, scrap that? Like scrap metal? *sigh*
So learn these:
- Carbohydrases: Break down (digest) starch into sugars.
- Proteases: digest proteins into amino acids.
- Lipase: digests fat to fatty acids and glycerol.