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Lesson 5 - 8ae Absorption

The document discusses the process of absorption in the small intestine. It explains that the small intestine is adapted to efficiently absorb nutrients with a length of over 6 meters in humans. It has millions of finger-like villi that further increase the surface area for absorption. The villi have a thin wall and close blood supply that allows digested molecules to be quickly absorbed into blood vessels. Enzymes also help break nutrients down so they can pass through the intestinal wall during absorption.

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Lesson 5 - 8ae Absorption

The document discusses the process of absorption in the small intestine. It explains that the small intestine is adapted to efficiently absorb nutrients with a length of over 6 meters in humans. It has millions of finger-like villi that further increase the surface area for absorption. The villi have a thin wall and close blood supply that allows digested molecules to be quickly absorbed into blood vessels. Enzymes also help break nutrients down so they can pass through the intestinal wall during absorption.

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STARTER – Words in a

Word

How many words can you make of 3 letters or more from the
letters in the word 'absorption'?

What does
this word
mean?
Unit: 8A Food and Nutrition

Lesson Title: 8Ae Absorption

Lesson objective: To develop understanding of how the small intestine is adapted


for absorption.

The big picture: Understand factors that


Success Criteria contribute to a healthy lifestyles and the
process of digestion.

Explain the process of diffusion

Key Student Competencies:


Critical thinking
Digital competence
Explain the adaptations of the
Independent learning
villi Communication

Keywords:
Describe the role of enzymes in Enzymes, starch, glucose, absorption, villi, surface
enabling nutrients to be absorbed area, capillaries, digestion, nutrients

Recall the function of the small


intestine Numeracy/Skills:
Hank's recap...
Task
Self-assess
After digestion, small food
molecules can diffuse across the
intestine wall and be absorbed
into the body.

The small intestine is over 6m


long in an adult human

To increase the rate of transport


of food molecules across the
intestine wall, the surface area of
the small intestine is increase
even further by millions of finger
like structures called villi.
The villi have adaptations that help to increase Thin walls so that the
the rate at which nutrients are absorbed into the digested food molecules
blood do not travel far to be
absorbed into the blood.

The close
supply of
blood to take
the digested
food to the
rest of the
body
Large surface area
increased by
microvilli increases
rate of absorption into
the blood
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villi and how digested
food is absorbed into
the blood.

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