After surgical removal of the gallbladder, a person might need to limit his or her dietary intake of a. starch. b. protein. c. sugar. d. fat.

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Hi everyone here's our next problem. It says bile is produced in the blank and stored in the blank. And the choices were given our pancreas, small intestine, liver and gallbladder in different combinations. So let's look at each of these. Well the pancreas produces various digestive enzymes so it's involved in the digestive system but it does not produce or store bile. So we can go and eliminate any of the choices here that involve the pancreas. So choice A. Has pancreas in it. So we eliminate that choice D has pancreas. So let's look down at the next thing that might be in one of our answers. The small intestine. Well bile is uh to create it into the small intestine but it's not produced or stored there. It's used in the intestine um but not produced or stored. So we can eliminate Choice B. As that has small intestine in it. So we're left with just one choice Twic liver and gallbladder while being produced in the liver stored in the gallbladder. And that is correct. The liver produces bile continually and then by all that isn't needed right away is stored and concentrated in the gallbladder. And it can then be secreted into the small intestine where it aids in the digestion of fats and lipids by like paces. It does this because it has um bile bile salts have a hydra filic side and a hydrophobic side. The hydrophobic side makes causing them to cluster around droplets of lipids and then the hydra filic side is actually negatively charge. Those bile salts are an ions and because now you have little droplets that are surrounded by a negative charge, they will not cluster back together since they'll repel each other. So by breaking down the lipids into these smaller droplets. Bye emulsify ng fats is what we call that process. There's more surface area for the light places to get in and digest those fats more easily. So again we have a correct choice see bile being produced in the liver and stored in the gallbladder. See you next time.