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12. Disease and immunity
12.1. Disease

Explain that the cholera bacterium produces a toxin that causes secretion of chloride ions into the small intestine, causing osmotic movement of water into the gut, resulting in diarrhoea, dehydration and loss of ions from the blood

8. Human nutrition
8.3. Absorption and assimilation

Understand that absorption (by diffusion, osmosis and active transport) is the movement of nutrients from the intestines into cells lining the digestive system and then into the blood