SCIENCE
Nutrition
Parts of the digestive system:
The digestive tube:
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Mouth: first part of the digestive tube. Cavity where you chew the food and you mix it with saliva. Parts: teeth and tongue.
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Oesophagus: second part of the tube where you swallow food+saliva.
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Stomach: organ that mixes food, salive and bile. Remember bile is produced by some of the helper glands.
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Small intestine: part of the tube where absorption (passing the nutrients to the blood) occurs, thank you to capillaries. It can be 10.5m long. Appendix gland is a part of it.
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Large intestine: this part of the tube that prepares waste to be eliminated.
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Rectum: final part of the larg intestine.
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Anus: final part of the digestive tube where was is expulsed.
Helper glands:
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Salivary glands: produce saliva.
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Liver: produces bile and cleans the blood.
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Pancreas: produces bile and controls sugar.
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Gall bladder: saves bile and filter liquids.