AP 1: Module 3 exam Questions

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Expertly Verified Answers, 2025 / 2026.Quiz____?Explain why a patient with liver disease would have intolerance to fatty foods. - Answer✓✓ The liver produces bile which breaks down fats. If it is not producing bile (or less bile), fats will not be broken down effectively.Quiz____?Explain in detail how stomach contents enter small intestine - Answer✓✓ The pyloric sphincter valve, located at the base of the stomach, relaxes causing a small quantity of chyme to pass through the opening into the first part of the small intestine. This initiates a reflex that causes the muscles of the sphincter to contract and close the opening temporarily.Then the sphincter relaxes again and allows more chyme to enter.Quiz____?A patient experiencing vitamin toxicity. What type of vitamin would be causing this toxicity?

• Water soluble vitamin
• Fat soluble vitamin
• All of the above -

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• Fat soluble vitamin, they are stored within the body's fat stores making

it harder for the body to rid itself of them.Quiz____?Explain each digestive system functions are carried out by the small intestine - Answer✓✓ Digestion and Absorption Chemical digestion continues as enzymes from the pancreatic juices break down starches and proteins, and begin digestion of fat.Mechanical digestion continues as bile breaks down fat into smaller pieces Absorption begins as digested food molecules, water and fat are absorbed into the bloodstream.Quiz____?Name and explain four main functions performed by the digestive system - Answer✓✓

1. Ingestion: when food enters the mouth

2. Digestion: food breakdown occurs when food is moved, mixed and

exposed to enzymes along the gastrointestinal tract. Divided into two parts, mechanical and chemical.

• Mechanical occurs when food is broken down in small pieces using the

teeth to chew food.

• Chemical is the breakdown of food by enzymes

3. Absorption: the process of loving digested food into the bloodstream

4. Defecation: the excretion of indigestible food from the anus

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