Digestive System Revision Crossword Puzzle

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QUESTIONS LIST: absorption: uptake of nutrients and water from digested food into blood, incisors: teeth that cut food with sharp edges, biting or nibbling, pancreas: produces digestive enzymes and insulin, gallbladder: where bile is stored, mucus: gastric juice protects the stomach wall against gastric acid secretions, herbivore: eats plant material, liver: where bile is produced, mechanical: churning of the stomach is as example of this type of digestion, duodenum: first part of the small intestine, hydrochloric: acid which kills any ingested bacteria, and which lowers the ph to allow pepsin to work, rectum: final stage of the large intestine that serves as a storage centre for faeces, jejunum: part of the small intestine where the majority of nutrient absorption takes place, skeletal: the tongue is made up of this type of muscle, pepsin: enzyme that breaks down proteins, digestion: breakdown of food into essential components, caecum: enlarged in herbivores