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| carries out physical work, pummels food into smaller pieces |
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| between stomach and small intestine, pushes food into small intestine |
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| smothers food and chyme in digestive juices |
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| produces powerful digestive juices |
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| increase speed with which chemical reactions occur and break down carbs, proteins, and fats |
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| provides additional help in breaking down fats; produces bile |
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| storage, concentration, and later release of bile |
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| in small intestine; help with digestion and absorption of food; traps and carries away molecules of food and fat. Make 600x as much surface area for food to be absorbed |
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| what two organs use peristalsis to move food along? |
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| synthesizes vitamins from food and intestine |
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| in the liver; stored as glucose |
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| Where is sugar stored for readily available energy and in which form is it? |
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| ECSFP--energy store for glucose; chemical plant for synthesizing and breaking down food; supply depot for vitamins and minerals; factory for bile; power station for producing heat and energy |
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| What are five main functions of liver |
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