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The first activity of the digestive system is to take in food through the mouth.

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The large pieces of food that are ingested have to be broken into smaller particles that can be acted upon by various enzymes that are proteins that help to speed up the metabolism. This begins in the mouth with chewing and continues with churning and mixing actions in the stomach.

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Enzyme that saliva produces and break complex carbohydrates into simple.

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This happens through a process called hydrolosys, uses water and digestive enzymes to break down the complex carbohydrates. Digestive enzymes speed up the hydrolysis process, which is otherwise very slow.

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Propels food from the oral cavity to the esophagus, lubricates food and passageways.

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Propels food to the stomach, as well lubricates food and passageways.

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Mixes food with gastric juices to form chyme, chemical breakdown of proteins, releases food into the duodenum as chyme.

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Enzyme that breaks proteins into carbohydrates in the stomach.

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Mixes chyme with digestive juices, propels food at a rate slow enough for digestion and absorption, absorbs breakdown of carbs , proteins, fats and nucleic acids, as well as vitamins, water and minerals and performs physical digestion .

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Produces bile salts wich emulsify
lipids, aiding their digestion and absorption.

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Bile is a juice created by the liver and stored in the gallbladder that helps to break down fats into simple substances.

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Stores, concentrates, and release bile.

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Produces digestive enzymes and bicarbonate.

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Further breaks down food residues, absorbs residual water. electrolytes, and vitamins produced by enteric bacteria, propels the feces towards the rectum and eliminate feces.

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The feces are expelled out of the body through the anus.