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How is fat digested in the humans?

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No digestion of fat occurs in buccal cavity while very little digestion of fat occurs in stomach. About two-third of fat is stepwise digested by pancreatic lipase enzyme in small intestine while remaining fat is digested by intestinal lipase. But digestion of fat is never completed.
`"Triglyceride"overset("Lipase")rarrunderset("Fatty acid")underset(+)("Diglyceride")overset("Lipase")rarrunderset("Fatty acid")underset(+)("Monoglyceride")overset("Lipase")rarr"Glycerol"+"Fatty acid"`
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MODERN PUBLICATION-DIGESTION AND ABSORPTION-REVISION EXERCISES (Short Answer Questions)
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  2. How would digestion of food be affected if the bile duct is completely...

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  3. How is fat digested in the humans?

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  4. What are micelles? How are they helpful?

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  5. Explain the coagulation of milk in the alimentary canal.

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  6. What are microvilli? State their functions.

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  7. State one difference between active and passive absorption.

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  8. What would happen if bile is not secreted?

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  9. Differentiate between chyme and chyle.

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  10. Name the watery fluid secreted by Brunner's gland in the duodenum. Men...

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  11. Write four functions of liver.

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  12. What is the source of saliva? Mention its composition.

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  13. Name the source of enterokinase and mention its action.

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  14. How does food move along the human gut? What is this process called?

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  15. Write down the dental formula of human. What is meant by thecodont?

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  16. What is source of HCl? Give its functions.

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  17. How carbohydrate is digested in buccal cavity?

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  18. Draw a well labelled diagram of V.S. of Human tooth.

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  19.  What will help in protein digestion in stomach ?

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  20. How dose butter in your food get digested and absorbed in the body?

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