Certain cells in your pancreas make digestive enzymes that are secreted into ducts and carried to your small intestine.If you looked at these pancreatic cells by electron microscopy,you would expect to see
A) large amounts of rough ER.
B) multiple nuclei per cell.
C) large numbers of primary lysosomes.
D) numerous cilia on the cell surfaces.
E) few ribosomes but numerous vacuoles.

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The cells in the pancreas that make digestive enzymes would have a high demand for protein synthesis to produce these enzymes. Therefore, they would have large amounts of rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) where proteins are synthesized and modified.

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