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  • Human digestive system is composed of alimentary canal and digestive glands.
  • Mouth is made up of teeth, tongue and salivary glands.
  • Teeth masticates the food, tongue mixes food with saliva and salivary gland secrete an enzyme salivary amylase which breaks down starch into simple forms.
  • After mouth food enters into the pharynx, and then passes through a tube like structure called the esophagus with the help of peristaltic movement.
  • Food reaches the stomach.
  • Stomach is muscular bag like structure and partial digestion of food occurs here.
  • Glands embedded in the wall of the stomach secrete HCl, mucus and pepsin.
  • HCl makes food acidic for the action of pepsin and kills harmful bacterias.
  • Mucus protects the wall of the stomach from the action of HCl.
  • Pepsin breaks down proteins into simpler forms.
  • Food moves into a highly coiled structure called the small intestine.
  • The 100% digestion of food occurs in the small intestine.
  • Small intestine gains secretion from the liver and pancreas.
  • Liver secretes bile juice which makes food alkaline and breaks down large fat globules into smaller fat globules, called emulsified fats.
  • Pancreas secrete pancreatic juice which contains, pancreatic lipase, pancreatic amylase and trypsin.
  • Pancreatic lipase breaks down emulsified fats into fatty acid and glycerol.
  • Pancreatic amylase breaks down starch into simple forms.
  • Trypsin breaks down proteins into simple forms.
  • Many enzymes are secreted by the wall of the small intestine which finally digest carbohydrates into the simplest sugars, proteins into amino acids and fats into fatty acids and glycerol.
  • The digested food is absorbed by the finger-like projections called villi.
  • The undigested food enters into the large intestine, and water is absorbed here.
  • The undigested food is finally removed out of the body, through anus.

Human digestive system

Final Answer: Hence, this is the well labeled diagram of the human digestive system and its explanation.

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