Question

Explain the digestive process that takes place in each part of the digestive system

Answer 1

The primary digestion takes place in the mouth where the teeth grinds all the hard food particles and the salivary gland secretes saliva which turns the starch into maltose (simple sugars)
Then the food goes to the stomach where the gastric juices acts on the food. The HCL produced acts on the food to kill the germs and activate the function of Pepsin. The Pepsi then acts on protiens into peptone and peptide
The food then goes to the small intestinewhere it receives secretions from liver(bile juice which acts on the fat molecules ). The components of food breaks down into glucose and fatty globules and amino acid