AP2- Ex4 – Possible essays: Digestion and Metabolism
Directions:
Essay. Read and follow directions incorporated into each question. Ask for assistance if you do not fully understand directions or questions. Answers are to be written IN BLUE OR BLACK INK; limit answers to the spaces provided.
1. For each term or phrase presented, write (a) the definition AND (b) briefly state the importance of the structure or term (in physiology). Use one (1) well-written, concise, complete sentence for each. Do not run the definition and the importance together in the same sentence.
What are each of the three different types of food broken down into? i.e. what are their constituents?
How are the accessory organs involved in digestion? List and give function for each.
How is fat digestion accomplished?
How are triglycerides absorbed out of the lumen of the gut?
How and where are carbohydrates digested?
How and where are proteins digested?
How and where are carbohydrates absorbed?
Trace – in list form - the path of the food/chyme through the alimentary tract.
What are the three general stages of cellular metabolism and in general what occurs in each?
What is the end product of metabolism? i.e. what are we ‘after’? How does swallowing
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