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Select the wrong option from the following.
BiologyDigestion and AbsorptionNEET
Options:
  • A Intrinsic factor secreted by parietal cells - Essential for the absorption of vitamins B12.
  • B Bile activates - lipases.
  • C Succus entericus - digestion of nucleic acid into nucleotides.
  • D Enterokinase secreted by intestinal mucosa - activates trypsinogen into trypsin.
Solution:
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The correct answer is: Succus entericus - digestion of nucleic acid into nucleotides.
Succus enteriscus is the other name of intestinal juice secreted by the mucosal epithelium of the small intestine. This juice has various enzymes like lipases, dipeptidases, nucleosidases including dipeptidase. Nucleases that break the nucleic acids to nucleotides are found in the pancreatic juice secreted by the pancreas.

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