GENERAL HISTOLOGY

SMALL INTESTINE

BODY OF STOMACH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is absorption?
A
Food entering the mouth and being chewed
B
Food entering the stomach for digestion
C
Taking digested food into the blood stream
D
Making complex organic molecules in cells using digested foods
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What happens to the digested food? The small intestine absorbs most of the nutrients in your food, and your circulatory system passes them on to other parts of your body to store or use. Special cells help absorbed nutrients cross the intestinal lining into your bloodstream.

Detailed explanation-2: -Then, chylomicrons move into the lymph vessels and release the digested products into the blood. Finally, the digested and absorbed products reach the tissue to be utilized for their activities. This process is called as assimilation. To learn more about Digestion and Absorption of Digested Foods, visit BYJU’S.

Detailed explanation-3: -The digested food passes through the walls of the small intestine and is absorbed by the villi present on the inner wall of small intestine and reaches into the bloodstream.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is the process that takes place post the digestion. In this process, the digested food within the small intestine is now transported to the blood via the help of villi on the inner walls of the small intestine.

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