How is small intestine designed to absorb the digested food? what are the functions of digestive enzymes?
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The small intestine has millions of tiny finger-like projections called villi.
These villi increase the surface area for more efficient food absorption.
Within these villi, many blood vessels are present that absorb the digested food and carry it to the blood stream.
The small intestines are well adapted forabsorbing nutrients during digestion by:
being very long,
having villi and microvilli that increase surface area,
using muscular contractions to move and mix food,
and receiving and housing digestive enzymes
and bile that help the breakdown of food.
Any enzyme that breaks down protein into its building blocks, amino acids, is called a protease, which is a general term. Your digestive tract produces a number of these enzymes, but the three main proteases are pepsin, trypsin and chymotrypsin.
These villi increase the surface area for more efficient food absorption.
Within these villi, many blood vessels are present that absorb the digested food and carry it to the blood stream.
The small intestines are well adapted forabsorbing nutrients during digestion by:
being very long,
having villi and microvilli that increase surface area,
using muscular contractions to move and mix food,
and receiving and housing digestive enzymes
and bile that help the breakdown of food.
Any enzyme that breaks down protein into its building blocks, amino acids, is called a protease, which is a general term. Your digestive tract produces a number of these enzymes, but the three main proteases are pepsin, trypsin and chymotrypsin.
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Finger - like structures known as Villi are present in the inner walls of the small intestine to absorb digested food.
Digestive enzymes break complex food into simpler ones for their easy digestion.
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