1. The Digestive System
Prepares food for use by all
body cells.

2. Digestion
The chemical breakdown of complex
biological molecules into their component
parts.
– Lipids to fatty acids
– Proteins to individual amino acids
– Carbohydrates into simple sugars

3. Function
Produces various chemicals to
break down the food.
Filters out harmful substances.
Gets rid of solid wastes.

4. Digestion
Mechanical
– Changes the physical form of food
Chew
Tear
Grind
Mash
Mix

5. Digestion
Chemical
– Changes the chemical composition of food
with the aid of digestive enzymes
Carbohydrate
Protein
Lipid
– Digestive enzymes are special proteins that
help break up large molecules of food into
very tiny molecules that can be absorbed and
used by the cells in the form of nutrition.

6. Protozoa
A protozoa takes in food via the water
and stores the food in sacs called
vacuoles. They eat tiny algae and
bacteria.

7. Hydra
heir bodies are basically just a hollow cylinder, which is solid at the base,
with an opening at the mouth end. The mouth leads into the hollow
interior of the cylinder which acts as the digestive cavity. The mouth is
surrounded by a variable number of tentacles (usually somewhere
between 6 and 10). Because the digestive cavity has only one opening,
food and subsequently, digested waste, both come in and go out through
the same opening.

8. Earthworm
A earthworm has a digestive system. It eats dirt, digesting the plant
and animal matter in the dirt and then eliminates the rest. It has an
esophagus for the food to go down, a crop to store the food in, a
gizzard that grinds the food down, intestines for the food to pass
through and take out nutrients and an anus for the food to come out.

9. Grasshopper
•The mouth leads to the muscular pharynx, and through the esophagus to the crop.
This leads to the malpighian tubules. These are the chief excretion organs.
•The hindgut includes intestine parts (including the ileum and rectum), and exits
through the anus.
•Most food is handled in the midgut, but some food residue as well as waste products
from the malpighian tubules are managed in the hindgut. These waste products consist
mainly of uric acid, urea and amino acids, and are normally converted into dry pellets
before being disposed of.
•The salivary glands and midgut secrete digestive enzymes. The midgut secretes
protease, lipase, amylase, and invertase, among other enzymes. The particular ones
secreted vary with the different diets of grasshoppers.

10. Phases of Digestion
Ingestion
Movement
Digestion
Absorption
Further digestion

11. The Digestive Tract
A long muscular
tube with many
sections and
areas.
Begins with the
mouth and ends
with the anus.

12. The Digestive Tract
Parts of the Digestive
Tract
– Mouth
– Pharynx
– Esophagus
– Stomach
– Small Intestine
– Large Intestine

13. Accessory Parts
Organs that are not in the digestive tract
but helps in the digestion
– Teeth
– Tongue
– Salivary glands
– Liver
– Gall bladder
– Pancreas

14. Mouth
Functions:
– Food enters in the mouth or oral
cavity
– Tasting
– Mechanical breakdown of food
– Secretion of salivary glands
(salivary amylase)

15. Mouth
Structures in the mouth that aids digestion:
Teeth – cut, tear, crush and grind food.
Salivary glands – produce and secrete
saliva into the oral cavity.
– Parotid (beneath the cheeks)
– Submaxillary (below the jaw bone)
– Sublingual (below the tongue)
– saliva moistens the
food and contains enzymes (ptyalin or
salivary amylase) that begins digestion
of starch into smaller polysaccharides.

16. Mouth
Tongue
– Mixes and rolls food into tiny
mashed up bits (Bolus)
– Pushes the bolus toward the
pharynx and into the esophagus
when swallowing.

17. Anatomy of the Mouth and
Throat

18. Human Deciduous and
Permanent Teeth

19. Mechanism of Swallowing
Swallowing is a coordinated activity of the
tongue, soft palate, pharynx and esophagus.
Phases
– Food is pushed into the pharynx by the
tongue. (voluntary)
– Tongue blocks the mouth
– Soft palate closes off the nose
– Larynx (Adam’s Apple) rises so the
Epiglottis (a flap of tissue) can close the
opening of the trachea.

21. Esophagus
A straight muscular tube that is about 10 inches
(25 cm) long which connects the mouth with the
stomach
Food takes about 4 to 8 seconds as it passes
through to the stomach.
Its walls contain smooth muscles that contracts
in wavy motion (Peristalsis).
Peristalsis propels food and liquid slowly
down the esophagus into the stomach.
Cardiac Sphincter (ring-like valve) relaxes to
allow food into the stomach.

22. Peristalsis

23. Stomach
J-shaped muscular sac
Has inner folds (rugae) that increases the
surface area of the stomach.
Churns and grinds together the bolus into
smaller pieces.
Food is mixed with gastric juices
(hydrochloric acid and enzymes) secreted
by the stomach walls.
HCL helps break down food and kills
bacteria that came along with the food.

24. Stomach

25. Stomach
Pepsin – major enzyme; converts
proteins into peptides in the presence of
HCL.
Mucus – lubricates food and protects the
gastric lining from strong digestive juices.
Converts the bolus into a liquid
(chyme) after 4 hrs of mechanical and
chemical digestion
Chyme passes through the pyloric
sphincter into the small intestine.

26. Movements in Stomach

27. Small Intestine
Long (20 ft), coiled tube beneath the
stomach.
Has three parts:
Duodenum – upper part; about 10 in; connected to
the stomach.
– where the digestive juices from the
pancreas and the liver combine with chyme
making it thin and watery.
Jejunum – about 8 ft
Ileum – about 12 ft

28. Small Intestine
Site of greatest amount of digestion and absorption

29. Small Intestine
Takes about 4 – 8 hrs to complete its journey.
Mucosa (inner wall) – secretes several enzymes
that acts on the food.
Where the pancreatic enzymes are emptied into.
Digested nutrients are absorbed through
intestinal walls.
Absorbed materials cross the mucosa into the
blood then other parts of the body for storage or
further chemical change.

30. Small Intestine
Has folded inner walls covered with
fingerlike projections (villi; sing. – villus)
Each villus has tinier projections called
microvilli that absorbs digested food.
Villi and microvilli increases the surface
area of the small intestine for greater
absorption.
Peristalsis moves the undigested food to
the large intestine.

31. Movement in small intestine:
Mixing: Segmental contraction that occurs in small intestine
Secretion: Lubricate, liquefy, digest
Digestion: Mechanical and chemical
Absorption: Movement from tract into circulation or lymph
Elimination: Waste products removed from body

32. Large Intestine
a.k.a. Colon
larger diameter, but shorter (5 ft)
Water is absorbed from the
undigested food making the waste
harder until it becomes solid.
Waste stays for 10 – 12 hours.

33. Large Intestine

34. Large Intestine
Waste is pushed into the expanded
portion (rectum) of the large intestine.
Solid waste stays in the rectum until it
is excreted through the anus as
feces.
Appendix hangs on the right side of
the large intestine.

35. Accessory Organs
Produce or store enzymes that helps in
digestion.
Liver
– Largest gland of the body
– Stores vitamins A,D,E,K
– Stores sugar and glycogen
– Produces bile (watery, greenish
substance)
– Secretes bile to the gall bladder via the
hepatic duct and cystic duct.

36. Accessory Organs
Gall bladder
– Stores bile in between meals
– Secretes bile to the duodenum through
the bile duct during mealtime.
Bile contains bile salts, pigments,
cholesterol and phospholipids.
Bile is an emulsifier NOT an enzyme.
Emulsifier – dissolves fat into the
watery contents of the intestine.

37. Accessory Organs
Pancreas
– Produces a juice that contains
enzymes (amylase and insulin) to
break down carbohydrates, fats
and protein.
– Secretes the juice into the
duodenum through the pancreatic
duct.

38. Path of Digestion
Mouth
Pharynx
Esophagus
Stomach
Small Intestine
Large Intestine
Anus

39. The Excretory System
Gets rid of wastes and other
substances that the body doesn’t
need.

40. Two Types of Wastes
Solid Waste – from the Digestive System
in the form of feces.
Metabolic Wastes – produced by chemical
reactions like respiration, hydrolysis,
synthesis and neutralization.
– Water
– Carbon Dioxide
– Salts
– Urea

41. Removal of Wastes
Egestion
– removal of digestive waste.
Excretion
– removal of metabolic waste.

42. Organs of Excretion
Skin
– Allows water, salt and urea to
diffuse from the blood (capillaries)
into the sweat glands.
– Releases sweat from the sweat
glands through the sweat ducts out
to the skin pores.

43. Organs of Excretion
Lungs
– Excretes the waste product of
respiration during exhalation.
– Carbon Dioxide and Water
Vapor.

44. Organs of Excretion
Liver
– Part of the digestive, circulatory and
excretory systems.
– Removes excess amino acids from
the body.
– Breaks down the amino acids
through deamination to form the
urea which is excreted in the urine.

45. Organs of Excretion
Kidneys
– Major excretory organs of the body
which removes most of the body
wastes.
– Purify blood by filtering out water, salts,
digested food particles and urea in the
form of urine.
– Urine passes out through the urinary
tract.

46. Urinary System

47. Excretion of Urine
Kidney
Ureter – a tube that transports urine to the
urinary bladder.
Urinary Bladder – a sac of tissue that has
the ability to expand as it fills with urine.
Urethra – a tube at the bottom of the
bladder where urine passes out of the
body.

48. Assignment
Research and make a table about the different
Digestive Enzymes.
Follow the following format:
Digestive
Enzymes Substrates Products
Gland
Salivary Glands
Gastric Glands
Pancreas
Intestinal
Glands