Digested food substances are absorbed into which of the following?

John Perolski
August 25, 2023

    BIOLOGY UTME 2021 QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS 26. Digested food substances are absorbed into which of the following? 

A. hepatic artery 

B. hepatic vein 

C. hepatic portal vein 

D. splenic artery

SOLUTIONS

26C Hepatic portal vein carries food-laden blood from the small intestine to the liver particularly for toxicological screening and metabolic modification. This vein is portal because it begins and ends incapillaries, Hepatic artery supplies the liver as an organ while hepatic vein drains it