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The length of the intestine (along with its corrugations) is important for increasing the opportunity for nutrition absorption.
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Human and Animal Interaction question: Why does the frogs small intestine have to be so long? more surface area for absorption of nutrients ... Two reasons why the small intestine is so long? Wy is the length of a frogs small intestine important? How dose the lenth of the small intestine help frogs eat? What are 2 reasons why...
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Small intestine's function is to digest the complex food (by using digestive enzymes the small intestine secretes) into simpler nutrients AND to absorb these nutrients. You can imagine that if food stays longer there, it will have time to g...
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Food is squirted from the stomach into the small intestine. Here it mixes with digestive juices from the liver and pancreas. Bile from the liver breaks up fat. Pancreatic juice neutralizes stomach acid ... WHY IS THE SMALL INTESTINE SO LONG? ... These tiny units are so small they can pass into the villi lining the intestine...
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In fact, it is so long it has to be coiled to fit in your body. Muscles of the small intestine finish pushing the food along until it is finally ready to be used by your cells. You might think that after 5 whole hours in the stomach our food would be pretty well digested.
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Do you want to know more about the human body? There are many topics to explore. We have the answers to many of your questions! So go ahead and ask! ... Digestive System - Why is the small intestine so long? Why is the large intestine so short?
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The small intestine is about 7 meters long. It is only 3cm in diameter. The small intestine is larger than the large intestine, but its diameter is smaller.
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"The small intestine in adults is a long and narrow tube about 7 meters (23 feet) long. The large intestine is so called because it is wide in diameter. However, it is shorter than the small intestine - only about 1.5 meters (5 feet) long."
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Constipation is the opposite: The contents of the large intestines do not move along fast enough and waste materials stay in the large intestine so long that too much water is removed and the feces become hard. ... From the small intestine, undigested food (and some water) travels to the large intestine through a muscular...
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