Study Guide #2 Digestive System
Nutrients: How much should you have from each food
group? Do you normally eat like this? How much
water should you drink? What happens if you eat too
much carbohydrates? What are the 6 nutrients? Why
do you need carbohydrates? Why do you need
proteins? Why do you need minerals? Etc.
Lab #2: peristalsis, mucus, digestive organs; How does
food move from one organ to another? Which organs
does food actually go through?
Organs: Be able to identify all the digestive organs and
be able to tell what each organ does to digest food.
Lab #3: Know and understand how to test for sugar
and starch. Know results of this lab. Lugols/Benedict
what do you do?
Lab #4: Amylase—what does it do? Where is it found?
What is it? Know the results of lab 4 and understand
the results. Mechanical digestion, chemical digestion,
saliva, bolus, enzymes, epiglottis, esophagus, trachea
Pictures in the book that describe starch/sugar process
Lab #5: What gets digested in the stomach? What is
pepsin? What is HCl? What is gastric juice? What
needs to happen for protein to be digested?
Lab #6: Understand lab lab and results. Active
transport, passive transport, examples of both types of
transport. Where does this happen? Why do we want
this to happen? Where does most chemical digestion
take place? What does bile do? Where is it created?
Where is it stored? What does pancreatic juice do?
Know and understand pictures in the book that
describe passive and active transport.
Lab #7: What was the point of lab 7? How do you find
surface area? Why does the small intestine have a large
surface area? What does the large intestine do? What
are villi and microvilli?