Science 4th Quarter

• Liver


  Produces bile, a green fluid that turns large fat droplets into smaller ones and stores them in the gall bladder
• Pancreas


  Makes three different kinds of enzymes: amylase, pepdibase, and lipac
• Small intestine


  An organ that breaks down food further into substances, such as glucose, that can be absorbed by villi
• Duodenum


  The first and shortest part of the small intestine, extending for about 20 cm to 25 cm in length
• Digestion


  Mechanical and chemical break down of food into small organic fragments
• Absorption


  The simple product of digestion, small enough to be absorbed by the epithelial cells of the intestinal villi
• Assimilation


  The movement of digestive food molecules into the cells of the body where they are used
• Egestion


  The colon is the first part of the large intestine, where semi-solid waste material called feces leaves the body. The feces are stored in rectum
• MEIOSIS I

  -produce 2 daughter cell
• MITOSIS

  • it is cellular process wherein two nuclei and two cells are produced due to the division of the original nucleus