The PNS helps to maintain internal balance, or "homeostasis," by the Parasympathetic division of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). Sometimes referred to as the "rest and digest" system, the Parasympathetics keep our internal activities regular throughout the day and night, such as a steady heart rate, slow breathing, digestion of food, filtration of blood, and excretion of wastes.
The only consumables that is not digested and is immediately absorbed, would be water, it is nothing but a polar compound that does not yield as much energy as all of the other molecules.
Leafs do photosythesis because leafs absorb blue and red light and reflect green just an aditional fact for ya
They are paired, placed in launae and have canaliculi to receive and send nutritive materials to matrix.