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How does the digestive system maintain homeostasis?
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It absorbs all.: the nutrients you eat and stores/utilizes the ones you need and you defecate or urinate out the ones you don't
Answered 3/11/2016
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GIGO: Food in / poop out. Nutrients adsorbed in the small intestine and water in the colon
Answered 2/6/2016
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