Name: Kidney as the Body Filter
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 4 min 4 s
Description: The kidney is the waste manager of our body. Let us look inside the kidney and understand how this wondrous filtration system works. Watch the video now.

Question

Name the main organs of the human digestive system in the order they participate in the process of digestion. Describe how digestion of carbohydrates and proteins take place in our body.

Accepted Answer

The main organs of the human digestive system in the order they participate in the process of digestion:
1. Stomach
2. Pancreas
3. Small intestine
4. Large intestine

Digestion of carbohydrates in our body:

Digestion of carbohydrates begins in the mouth with the mechanical action of chewing and action of salivary amylase.

The stomach doesn't secrete any enzyme that digest carbohydrates. Carbohydrate is digested in the small intestine by the action of pancreatic amylase.

Carbohydrates are digested into monosaccharides, and it is absorbed by the microvilli and transported to the cells via the blood.

Digestion of protein in our body:
Protein digestion occurs in the stomach and duodenum, which includes three main enzymes. they are as follows:

Pepsin secreted by the stomach.

Trypsin and chymotrypsin secreted by the pancreas.

Break down food proteins into polypeptides that are then broken down by various peptidases and dipeptidases into amino acids.

Name the main organs of the human digestive system in the order they participate in the process of digestion. Describe how digestion of carbohydrates and proteins take place in our body.

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