HISTOLOGY
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
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Question
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What does the stomach do to your food?
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Pulls the vitamins and minerals out.
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Helps move food to the back of your throat.
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Turns it into a liquid mixture.
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Collects the waste.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The stomach stores swallowed food and liquid, mixes the food and liquid with digestive juice it produces, and slowly empties its contents, called chyme, into the small intestine.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stomach: An organ with strong muscular walls, the stomach holds the food and mixes it with acid and enzymes that continue to break the food down into a liquid or paste.
Detailed explanation-3: -chyme, a thick semifluid mass of partially digested food and digestive secretions that is formed in the stomach and intestine during digestion. In the stomach, digestive juices are formed by the gastric glands; these secretions include the enzyme pepsin, which breaks down proteins, and hydrochloric acid.
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