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Digestive tube

Digestive tube --> digestive tract

The passage leading from the mouth to the anus through the pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, and intestine.

Synonym: alimentary canal, alimentary Tract, digestive tube, tubus digestorius.


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Antibodies in breast milk

... even the ones on one side or another, began as midline structures. Your digestive system, from which your stomach and liver and associated glands develop, begins as a central tube, then things develop off it and migrate to their final places. The doubled structures ...

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by Darby
Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:15 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Antibodies in breast milk
Replies: 16
Views: 2362

Re: research on starfish

... do believe. 4. To actually capture their food they use their arms with tube feet, when they eat clams they secrete digestive (stuff) in the shell, waits for awhile, then sucks it out. at least this is what ...

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by February Beetle
Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:29 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: research on starfish
Replies: 9
Views: 4967

Questions on mitosis

... as a hole. For example, the smooth muscle cells in the wall of the digestive tube form a syncitium (depolarization in one muscle cell will be followed by depolarization ...

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by sdekivit
Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:48 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Questions on mitosis
Replies: 13
Views: 3542

Questions on mitosis

... as a hole. For example, the smooth muscle cells in the wall of the digestive tube form a syncitium (depolarization in one muscle cell will be followed by depolarization ...

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by xand_3r
Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:34 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Questions on mitosis
Replies: 13
Views: 3542

The Fiber Disease

... Most internal organs in higher animals, such as the respiratory, digestive, genito-urinary and vascular systems are lined by a single layer ... in the cell. 3. The basic building block of most epithelial organs are tubes, lined by epithelial cells. How do epithelial cells organize themselves ...

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by Skytroll
Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:33 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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