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What happens to food after you swallow it.

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How are big molecules broken into smaller ones?

By special proteins called enzymes.

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What parts of the body produce digestive juices that are in the mouth, in the stomach and in the intestine?

Glands

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In what part of the body does digestion start?

In the mouth

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What is the purpose of saliva?

It contains enzymes that start to break up large starch molecules.

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Where is hydrochloric acid produced?

In the cells of the stomach.

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What does the liver produce? (It starts with B......)

Bile.

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What does bile do?

It helps to break fats.

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What does pancreas produce?

More enzymes.

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What does the large intestine do?

It absorbes water back into the body.

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What do you call the waste material that passes through the rectum and the anus? It starts with F.

faeces.

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What is a substrate?

The nutrient that an enzyme works on (e.g.: starch)

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How do the words that are enzymes end ?

'ase' (amylase /amileis/, proteases /proutieiz/ , lipase /laipeiz/ )

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What is the substrate that is present on bread?

Starch.

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What is the product after starch is broken?

Sugar

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What is the best temperature for enzymes?

37°C

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