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3 a. If you drank a bottle of water, how would this affect theosmolarity of the gastric fluids in the lumen of your smallintestine and therefore the osmotic gradient across the epithelialcells lining the small intestine?  

b. Based on your response to the previous question, how does thechange in the osmotic gradient affect the osmolarity of the plasma?The volume of the plasma?

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Water is secreted in the lumen of the small intestine during the process of digestionMajority of the water is reabsorbed in the small intestineWater flows through the mucosa in response to    See Answer
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