AP Inter 2nd Year Zoology Notes Chapter 1(a) Digestion and Absorption

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AP Inter 2nd Year Zoology Notes Lesson 1(a) Digestion and Absorption

→ The process of conversion of the complex food substances into their simple absorbable forms is called digestion.

→ Digestion involves both mechanical and biochemical processes.

→ Human digestive system consists of the alimentary canal and the associated glands.

→ The alimentary canal begins with the mouth and ends with the anus.

→ Mouth, oral cavity, pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and anus are the parts of the alimentary canal.

→ An adult human has 32 permanant teeth, which are of four different types namely incisors, canines, premolars and molars.

→ The dental formula of human adult is \(\frac{2123}{2123}\) = 32.

AP Inter 2nd Year Zoology Notes Chapter 1(a) Digestion and Absorption

→ The tongue acts as universal tooth brush and helps in mixing saliva with food, taste detection, deglution and speaking.

→ Stomach is a wide ‘J’ shaped muscular bag like structure, it has three parts cardiac portion, fundic region and pyloric region.

→ Small intestine is the longest part of the alimentary canal, it has three regions namely duodenum, jejunum and ileum.

→ Vermi form appendix is a narrow finger like projection, it is a vestigial organ arises from caecum.

→ Humans have three pairs of salivary glands namely parotid glands, the submaxillary glands and sublingual glands.

→ Salivary glands secrete saliva, contain water, salts, mucin salivary amylase and lysozyme.

→ Gastric glands are of three types namely cardiac glands, pyloricglands and fundic glands.

→ Gastric juice contains pro-enzymes like pepsinogen, pro-renin (in children).

→ Gastric juice pH ranging from 0.9 to 1.8.

→ Intestinal glands are two types namely Brunner’s glands and Crypts of lieberkuhn and secrete intestinal juice.

→ Intestinal juice contains peptidases and disaccharidases etc.

AP Inter 2nd Year Zoology Notes Chapter 1(a) Digestion and Absorption

→ Liver is the largest gland in the body, secretes bile juice.

→ Bile juice plays an important role in lipid digestion.

→ Pancreas is the second largest gland in the body; the endocrine part of pancreas secretes alkaline.panereatic juice and exocrine part secretes insulin and glucagon hormones.

→ Pancreatic juice contains trypsinogen, chymotrypisnogen, carboxy peptidase, steapsin, pancreatre amylase and nucleases.

→ Partly digested acidic food formed in the stomach is called chyme.

→ Gastrin is secreted from the epithelium of the stomach. It stimulates the secretions of HCl and pepsinogen.

→ Secretin is secreted by the epithelium of duodenum and stimulate the secretions of water and bicarbonates of the pancreatic juice.

→ Cholecystokinin is secreted from the epithelium of the duodenum and stimulate the secretion of pancreatic enzymes and the release of bile.

→ Villi and kinin secreted from intestinal villi stimulate the movement of villi to increase absorption.

→ Digestion is the process of conversion of complex and non-diffusible food substances into simple diffusible substances.

→ Absorption is movement of water and digested food into the wall of the alimentary canal and then into blood.

→ Digestion is accomplished by Mechanical and Biochemical processes.

→ The digestive system consists of Alimentary canal (Gut) and its associated glands.

→ Digestive glands: Salivary glands, Gastric glands, Liver, Pancreas and Intestinal glands.

AP Inter 2nd Year Zoology Notes Chapter 1(a) Digestion and Absorption

→ Small Intestine is the longest part of the alimentary canal and most of the digestion takes place in small intestine.

→ The essential substances in food are carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

→ Carbohydrates provide energy, proteins are building blocks and fats provide reserve energy.

→ The tongue acts as a universal tooth brush. L.S of Tooth consists of crown, neck, root. [IPE]

→ The acidic semi digested fluid food formed in the stomach is called chyme. [IPE]

→ Liver is the largest gland in the body which secretes bile juice. [IPE]

→ Bile juice plays an important role in lipid(fat) digestion. [IPE]

→ Bile salts help in the emulsification of Fats. Bile activates lipases. [IPE]

→ In the stomach gastric acid is secreted by the parietal cells. [NEET-2016]

→ Gastric juice of infants contains pepsinogen, lipase, rennin [NEET-2015]

→ Fructose is absorbed into the blood through mucosa cells of intestine by the process called facilitated transport. [NEET-2014]

AP Inter 2nd Year Zoology Notes Chapter 1(a) Digestion and Absorption

→ The enzyme composition of pancreatic juice: Lipase, Amylase, Trypsinogen, Chymotrypsinogen, Procarboxypeptidase [NEET-2017]

→ The hormones Cholecvstokiniri and secretin stimulate the production of pancreatic juice and bicarbonate. [NEET-2016]

→ The cells whose secretion protects the lining of gastro-intestinal tract from various enzymes are goblet cells. [NEET-2019]

→ Succus entericus is referred to as intestinal juice. [NEET-2021]

→ The enzyme enterokinase helps in conversion of trypsinogen into trypsin. [NEET-2020]

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