Digestive Glands
Digestive Glands: Overview
This topic explains the mechanical and chemical processes of digestion. It briefs on gastric glands, including its three major types of cells. It also defines the term chyme.
Important Questions on Digestive Glands
The gastric gland secretes enzymes for the protection of the inner lining of the stomach.
Make a list of the types of gastric glands.
Whar are the functions of gastric glands?
The pancreatic juice has enzymes to digest all the major components of food.
Bile neutralizes the acid content of the food received from the stomach.
Saliva tends to destroy germs in the mouth.
Saliva contains a protein-digesting enzyme.
Name the enzyme which digests sucrose in the ileum.
Name the enzyme which digests protein in the duodenum.
Name the enzyme which digests fats in the ileum.
Write the correct word for an enzyme that digests starch.
YEALMAS
| water | front | intestinal | salts | pseudopodia | back | vacuole |
The digestion of all food components is completed by the _____ juice.
The liver produces _____ only in the embryonic stage of humans. (erthrocytes/zymogen)
The chemicals that help to digest the food are called
A gland not associated with the alimentary canal is
