Quizlet Science - Digestive System

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  1. bile: breaks down fats into smaller particles that can be more eaisly digested
  2. digestive system: where you body breaks down food to get the nutrients and vitamins your cells need for energy
  3. esophagus: (throat) is where the food passes from your mouth to your stomach
  4. excretion: wastes are removed from the body
  5. glands: in you rmouth produce saliva to moisten food
  6. large intestines: have undigested food and wastes
  7. liver: "produces bile, which is stored in the gallbladder"
  8. pancreas: produces a fuluid that neutralizes stomaic acid and chemicals that help finish digestion
  9. salvia: moistens food and begins to break down starchy foods such as pasta into sugars
  10. small and large intestines: continue to bread down food and pass the wastes
  11. small intestines: where the digestion of food into nutirents is completed
  12. stomach: break down food even more
  13. teeth: break food into samller pieces
  14. villi: nutrients pass through and projections that sticking out of the walls of the small intestine into the blood