Digestion and Absorption Question 17
17. The food having fully undergone mechanical and chemical digestion inside the stomach, is called
(a) Chyle
(b) Bolus
(c) Amino acid
(d) Chyme
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Answer : d
Hints & Solution
(d) After mastication, food is converted into a small ball by rolling of the tongue known as bolus. Churning movement of the stomach brings about mechanical breakdown of the food into finer particles. The pulpy mass formed in stomach is called chyme. In the intestine food is converted into a liquid emulsion due to completion of digestion of most of the nutrients. The liquefied food emulsion contained in small intestine is called chyle.
