Learn about Processes of Digestion by completing the following lab simulation.
Objectives:
- To list the digestive system enzymes involved in the digestion of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates; to state their site of origin; and to summarize the environmental conditions promoting their optimal functioning.
- To recognize the variation between different types of enzymes assays.
- To name the end products of digestion of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
- To perform the appropriate chemical tests to determine if digestion of a particular food has occurred.
- To cite the function(s) of bile in the digestive process.
- To discuss the possible role of temperature and pH in the regulation of enzyme activity.
- To define enzyme, catalyst, control, substrate, and hydrolase.
- To explain why swallowing is both voluntary and a reflex activity.
- To discuss the role of the tongue, larynx, and gastroesophagael sphincter in swallowing.
- To compare and contrast segmentation and peristalsis as mechanisms of propulsion.
