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What structure contains the digestive enzymes of a chelicerate?

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The correct answer is midgut.

The guts of most modern Chelicerates are too narrow for digesting solid food, so the Chelicerates liquidize their food. Some of them do that by pumping the digestive enzymes from the midgut into the prey and then suck the liquefied tissues of the prey.

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