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A certain peson eats boiled potato, one of the food component in it is

A

lactose which is indigestible

B

starch which does not digested

C

cellulose which is digested by intestinal cellulose

D

DNA which gets digested by pancreatic DNAase.

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The correct Answer is:
D
Anything which cannot be digested cannot serve as 'food'. Therefore, starch and lactose in the present case have been automatically deleted.
Cellulose cannot be digested by human beings thus option ( C) also stands rejected. Pancreatic juice can digest DNA which is the component of every cell.
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