You have eaten a meal. The meal went into the digestive tract and was broken down...

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  1. You have eaten a meal. The meal went into the digestive tractand was broken down into sugar, amino acids, and fatty acids. Youabsorbed the nutrients into the blood stream. The nutrients areabsorbed from the part of the digestive tract with this functionand then transported to the right little finger.

Once in the right little finger, thenutrients enter the cell. Due to cellular respiration (breakdown offuel for energy), the metabolites of water and carbon dioxide areproduced. The carbon dioxide will be exhaled, while the water willbe excreted as urine.

List the pathways for

  1. The nutrients in the blood to get to the left littlefinger.
  2. The carbon dioxide to get from the left little finger toexhalation.
  3. The water molecule to get from the left little finger until itis excreted as urine.

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A Nutrient is Initially absorbed from Digestive tract then it enter the systemic circulation through the liver and reaches the heart then it reaches the lungs via Pulmonary arteries from lungs the nutrient and oxygen rich blood enter the heart through the pulmonary vein and enter the left atrium    See Answer
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