Question

1. What is peristalsis ? How does it help in digestion.
2. Mention the processes the food undergoes in the buccal cavity.
3. Mention the digestive glands associated with alimentary canal in man. Which of them produces
maximum enzymes and what is their secretion called ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Peristalsis is a series of wave -like muscle contraction that moves food to different processing stations in the digestive tract.....Peristalsis concludes in the large intestine where water from the undigested food material is absorbed into the bloodstream

Answer 2

Answer:1. The movement of food from the mouth to the alimentary canal is considered as the peristalsis . Alimentary canal consists of stomach ,Intestine Small in which digestion takes place this movement help in digestion.

2. When we eat the food our buccal cavity perform two major functions first is the mastication of food the help of teeth and conversion of maltose into simple sugars with the help of an enzyme known as salivary amylase which is produced by 3 pair of salivary glands.

3. The digestive gland associated with the alimentary canal are.

a. Salivary glands produces salivary amylase.

b. Gastric gland in stomach producers mucus, HCL, and pepsin.

c. Liver gland producers bile.

d. Pancreas gland producers pancreatic juice contains trypsin ,pancreatic amylase and pancreatic lipose.

e. Our small intestine producers intestinal juice name succus interricus.

Gastric gland producers maximum enzyme and the secretion name is gastric secretion

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