Plants use sunlight during photosynthesis in order to use it to make sugar
Food starts to move through your GI tract when you eat. When you swallow, your tongue pushes the food into your throat. A small flap of tissue, called the epiglottis, folds over your windpipe to prevent choking and the food passes into your esophagus.
Esophagus. Once you begin swallowing, the process becomes automatic. Your brain signals the muscles of the esophagus and peristalsis begins.
Lower esophageal sphincter. When food reaches the end of your esophagus, a ringlike muscle—called the lower esophageal sphincter —relaxes and lets food pass into your stomach. This sphincter usually stays closed to keep what’s in your stomach from flowing back into your esophagus.
Stomach. After food enters your stomach, the stomach muscles mix the food and liquid with digestive juices. The stomach slowly empties its contents, called chyme, into your small intestine.
Small intestine. The muscles of the small intestine mix food with digestive juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine, and push the mixture forward for further digestion. The walls of the small intestine absorb water and the digested nutrients into your bloodstream. As peristalsis continues, the waste products of the digestive process move into the large intestine.
Large intestine. Waste products from the digestive process include undigested parts of food, fluid, and older cells from the lining of your GI tract. The large intestine absorbs water and changes the waste from liquid into stool. Peristalsis helps move the stool into your rectum.
Rectum. The lower end of your large intestine, the rectum, stores stool until it pushes stool out of your anus during a bowel movement.
Prokaryotic Cells = do not have a nucleus; generally smaller and simpler that Eukaryotic cells.
-Smaller
-does NOT have a Nucleus
-translates to ‘no Nucleus’ OR ‘no true Nucleus’
-simpler
-they don't have all of their genetic material bound in a nucleus, which is why they are simpler forms of life.
-Prokaryotic cells do have genetic information but it is just stored differently
Ex: Bacteria and Single-Celled organisms
Eukaryotic Cells = Contains a Nucleus and are usually larger and more complex than a Prokaryotic cell
-Bigger
-DOES have a Nucleus
-More Complex
-Specialized to do certain things
Ex: All the Cells in a Human’s body. Skin cells, Red Blood cells
