More on Enzymes and Digestion

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  • What muscle is present in the mouth?
    The tongue
  • What is the enzyme contained in saliva?
    Amylase
  • What is the name for the tube which carries food from the mouth to the stomach?
    The oesophagus or the gullet
  • How does the stomach help digest food?
    • The walls pummel the food
    • Produces the enzyme pepsin
    • Produces hydrochloric acid
  • How does stomach acid aid digestion?
    It gives the optimum pH for protease to work
  • What pH is the stomach acid?
    pH 2
  • Where is bile released?
    The small intestine
  • Where does the pancreas release the enzymes it produces?
    The small intestine
  • Which organ produces a large amount of enzymes?
    The pancreas
  • What occurs in the small intestine?
    Small food molecules are absorbed into the blood
  • What occurs in the large intestine?
    Excess water is absorbed from the food
  • What happens in the rectum?
    Faeces are stored
  • Which organ excretes faeces?
    The anus
  • What are faeces mostly made up of?
    Undigestible food