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What structure secretes the enzyme that breaks down starch to smaller carbohydrates?

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Answer:

Pancreatic exocrine cells

Step-by-step explanation:

like salivary amylase, functions to digest starch into maltose and maltotriose. Pancreatic lipase, secreted by the pancreas with an important coenzyme called colipase, functions to hydrolyze the ester bonds in triglycerides to form diacylglycerols and monoacylglycerols.

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