Welcome To The Presentati On On Biology
Welcome To The Presentati On On Biology
PRESENTATI ON ON
BIOLOGY
INDEX
1. Different
steps involved
in nutrition
2. What is
digestion ?
3. Different
DIGESTION
Digestion is the process by which ingested (food) material is broken
down in the earlier stages of the alimentary canal into a form that can
then be absorbed and assimilated into the tissues of the body.
Digestion includes two types of processes Mechanical (e.g. chewing, grinding, churning, mixing), and
Chemical (e.g. action of digestive enzymes, bile, acids, etc.).
Absorption
Absorption is the uptake of fluids or other
substances by the tissues of the body.
Assimilation
ELIMINATION
Different parts of
alimentary canal
Alimentary canal of a human being is
a long 9 meters tube of varying
diameter . It has following different
parts: 1.Mouth
2.pharynx
3.
oesophagus 4.Stomach
5.
Smallintestine
6.Large intestine
DIGESTIVE
SYSTEM
MOUTH
Pharynx
The pharynx is the part of the neck and throat situated behind the
mouth and nasal cavity, and cranial, or superior, to the
esophagus. It is part of the digestive system and respiratory
system. Because both food and air pass through the pharynx, a
flap of connective tissue, the epiglottis closes over the trachea
when food is swallowed to prevent choking or asphyxiation.
Esophag
us
Stomach
The stomach is a small, 'J'-shaped pouch with
walls made of thick, distensible muscles, which
stores and helps break down food. Food reduced
to very small particles is more likely to be fully
digested in the small intestine, and stomach
churning has the effect of assisting the physical
disassembly begun in the mouth. Food enters the
stomach through the cardiac orifice where it is
further broken apart and thoroughly mixed with
gastric acid, pepsin and other digestive enzymes
to break down proteins. The enzymes in the
stomach also have an optimum conditions,
meaning that they work at a specific pH and
temperature better than any others. The acid
itself does not break down food molecules, rather
it provides an optimum pH for the reaction of the
enzyme pepsin and kills many microorganisms
that are ingested with the food. After the process
of digestion in stomach food passes to the
intestine.
SMALL
INTESTINE
Large intestine
After the food has been passed through the small
intestine, the food enters the large intestine. Within
it, digestion is retained long enough to allow
fermentation due to the action of gut bacteria, which
breaks down some of the substances that remain
after processing in the small intestine; some of the
breakdown products are absorbed.
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