Digestive and Respiratory System Worksheet

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Digestive and Respiratory System Worksheet Name: Alex Garner Before answering the questions below, log in to ADAM and view the clinical animations for Peristalsis and Gas Exchange. Remember, you may use our text, our discussions, and the internet to write your answers, but be sure to write your answers in your own words and to use correct citations where appropriate! Cutting and Pasting your responses will result in a Zero for this assignment! 1. Trace the path of an oxygen molecule from the air outside you to your tissues. First air is consumed by moving in from the nose or mouth. Next oxygen moves though the pharynx and passes your voice box or also known as your larynx. The next stop for the oxygen molecules is the trachea that parts to a left and right bronchus that is located in the lungs. This path will divide into even smaller branches that are known as bronchioles. At the end of the bronchioles are very small air sacs called alveoli. They deflate during exhalation and inflate when you inhale. The gas exchange of oxygen cycles through the lungs and then the blood stream as the walls of the alveoli shares the same walls with capillaries making the exchange of oxygen for carbon dioxide between the two very easy. The oxygen molecules attach to the red blood cells as the red blood cells move towards the heart, as the carbon dioxide is evacuated from the body by the exhale. (A.D.A.M. Interactive anatomy) Marieb, Elaine N.. Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology,VitalSource eBook for DeVry University. Pearson Learning Solutions, 2012. VitalBook file. 2. Trace the path of food from ingestion to defecation. Briefly describe what happens at each stop on the journey. (See figs 14.11 and fig 14.13 in your text for some hints!) AS food is digested by the mouth and move down the esophagus, wave-like muscle contractions called
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