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membrane acts as a protective layer of the gastrointestinal tract.

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Mucous membrane acts as a protective layer of the gastrointestinal tract.

$∙$ The mucus secreted from the mucus membrane helps in entrapping foreign microorganisms. Thus, helps they acts has protection against pathogens that gives as a first line of defence.

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