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Leeches do not have an elaborate secretion of digestive juices and enzymes - Why?

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The blood sucked by the leech is stored up in the crop . The blood gets haemolysed in the crop . Then the blood is passed drop by into the stomach where it is digested slowly by the peptolytic enzyme. The digested blood is absorbed by the intestine.
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