MEDICAL
GALLBLADDER AND EXCRETORY SYSTEM OF THE LIVER
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Question
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After food is swallowed, it enters the esophagus. What is the next step?
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The liver secretes a substance called bile, which helps to digest fats. It breaks down harmful substances and stores vitamins.
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Acid enzymes in the stomach break down food until it looks like a thin soup, a mixture called chyme.
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The food moves to the small intestine, where most digestion takes place.
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Bile is sent back to the gallbladder, where it is stored until it is needed in the small intestines.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The six activities involved in this process are ingestion, motility, mechanical digestion, chemical digestion, absorption, and defecation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ingestion. Digestion. Absorption. Assimilation. Egestion.
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