Down the alimentary canal

Pick one of the following structures or groups of structures in the digestive system and tell us in your own words what it does. Also tell us how its behavior is controlled. As part of your answer, imagine that you have eaten a greasy hamburger on a high fiber (both soluble and insoluble) bun and tell us what would be happening to it as a result of the activity of this structure.

Teeth and tongue

taste buds

Salivary glands

Soft palate and epiglottis

esophagus

Cardiac Sphincter

Stomach

Pyloric sphincter

Duodenum

Gall bladder

Ampulla of Vater

Sphincter of Oddi

Liver (only its functions directly involved in digestion!)

Pancreas (exocrine function)

Jejunum

ileum

ileocecal valve

cecum

Large intestine

appendix

sigmoid colon

Rectum/anus