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Assume that a person has a disease that prevents the pancreas from secreting digestive enzymes. Explain how digestion might be affected.

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Food will not be properly absorbed.
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Digestion might be affected by the diseased pancreas negatively because food will not be able to be absorbed all the way with the lack of digestive enzymes.
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