BIO 256 Exam 1 Review Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) function of digestive system - Correct Answers ✅processes food, extracts nutrients and eliminates residue the physical breakdown of food into smaller parts - Correct Answers ✅mechanical digestion A series of hydrolysis reactions that break dietary macromolecules into their monomers - Correct Answers ✅chemical digestion
- accessory organs - Correct Answers ✅teeth, tongue,
salivary glands, liver, gallbladder, pancreas what makes up the gi tract - Correct Answers ✅stomach and intestines mechanical digestion occurs where - Correct Answers ✅grinding of teeth and churning of stomach and small intestine chemical digestion occurs where - Correct Answers ✅digestive enzymes produced by salivary glands, stomach, pancreas, and small intestine most absorption occurs where - Correct Answers ✅small intestine 1 / 2
BIO 256 Exam 1 Review Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) small mucosal projections that increase surface area for absorption - Correct Answers ✅villi permanent transverse folds in the intestinal lining - Correct Answers ✅circular folds four layers of the digestive tract - Correct Answers ✅mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, serosa (from inner to outer) the submucosal plexus is located ____ - Correct Answers ✅in the submucosa layer the myenteric plexus is located between two layers of the - Correct Answers ✅muscularis externa function of submucosal plexus - Correct Answers ✅control glandular secretions of mucosa and movement of muscularis mucosae function of myenteric plexus - Correct Answers ✅controls peristalsis and other contractions of muscularis externa
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