After sitting through a two-hour lecture in math, your stomach is growling. You have just learned about surface area and its role in mathematics. Your classmate points out that surface area is also an integral part of the absorption of nutrients
a. due to the makeup of the gastric mucosa.
b. due to the relatively large size of food protein molecules.
c. through the presence of the enormous number of villi and microvilli.
d. resulting from the large size of pancreatic enzymes on which nutrients become digested.
c
You might also like to view...
According to the Diabetic Exchange Lists, when substituting 2% milk for skim milk, you must omit how many fat exchanges?
a. 0.5 b. 1 c. 1.5 d. 2
What vitamin injection is given to newborns to prevent the possibility of a life-threatening hemorrhage in the case of injury?
a. vitamin A b. vitamin K c. vitamin D d. vitamin C e. vitamin E
A normal half-cup vegetable portion weighs approximately how many grams?
a. 5 b. 50 c. 100 d. 200
Iodine deficiency is associated with all of the following except:
a. weight gain. b. cretinism. c. suffocation. d. goiter.