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Digestive System Lab Stations
What you will do today…
• Observe the length and the arrangement of the digestive tract from start to finish
• Investigate the role of villi and microvilli in absorbing nutrients into the bloodstream
• Contrast mechanical and chemical digestion• Reenact the role of each digestive structure as
food passes down the length of the digestive tract
What is digestion?
• Mechanical Digestion: the breakdown of food into smaller pieces
• Chemical Digestion: the breakdown of molecules into smaller molecules using enzymes