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Year 12 Biology

Digestion and absorption

The digestion of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins by enzymes, the roles of bile salts and micelles, and how the products of digestion are absorbed across the ileum by diffusion and co-transport.

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1. A person has a faulty co-transport protein for sodium ions and glucose. What is the most likely result in the ileum?

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