1-Intro to Digestion
Objectives:
Day 1
- Explain why digestion of large food molecules is essential
- Large molecules cannot be absorbed (taken into blood from digestive lume) or assimilated (taken into tissues from blood) unless they are first digested (disassembled or broken down).
- Proteins must digested into amino acids; carbohydrates must be digested into glucose monomers; nucleic acids must be digested into nucleotides; triglycerides / lipids must be broken down into fatty acids and glycerol
- State the names of 4 required macromolecules and their monomers
- carbohydrates - glucose
- protein - amino acids
- nucleic acids - nucleotides
- lipids - fatty acids & glycerol