1. Anatomy & Physiology Chapter 14 Vocab Review Part B

2. System that processes food into absorbable units and eliminates indigestible wastes.

3. Digestive System

4. Literally, double sugar; e.g., sucrose, lactose.

5. Disaccharide

6. A pouch or sac in the walls of a hollow organ or structure.

7. Diverticulum

8. First part of the small intestine.

9. Duodenum

10. Metabolic pathway within the mitochondria in which energy harvested from high-energy hydrogen atoms is used to make ATP. Final delivery of H to molecular oxygen produces water.

11. Electron Transport Chain

12. The hard, calcified substance that covers the crown of a tooth.

13. Enamel

14. A protein that acts as a biological catalyst to speed up a chemical reaction.

15. Enzyme

16. Linear chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms (hydrocarbon chains) with an organic acid group at one end.

17. Fatty Acids

18. Material discharged from the bowel; composed of food residue, secretions, bacteria.

19. Feces

20. Base of an organ; that part farthest from the opening of the organ.

21. Fundus

22. Sac beneath the right lobe of the liver used for bile storage.

23. Gall Bladder

24. Hormone secreted in the stomach; regulates gastric juice secretion by stimulating HCL production.

25. Gastrin

26. The gums.

27. Gingiva

28. Formation of glucose from noncarbohydrate molecules.

29. Gluconeogenesis

30. Principal blood sugar; a hexose.

31. Glucose

32. A modified simple sugar (a sugar alcohol).

33. Glycerol

34. Formation of glycogen from glucose.

35. Glycogenesis

36. Breakdown of glycogen to glucose.

37. Glycogenolysis

38. Breakdown of glucose to pyruvic acid; an anaerobic process.

39. Glycolysis

40. Individual cells (unicellular glands) that produce mucus.

41. Goblet Cells