Why salivary gland, liver, gall bladder and pancreas called accessory digestive glands?

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The salivary glands, liver and gall bladder, and the pancreas aid the processes of ingestion, digestion, and absorption. These accessory organs of digestion play key roles in the digestive process. Each of these organs either secretes or stores substances that pass through ducts into the alimentary canal.

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Choose the odd one out from each group and give reasons.

i) Liver, salivary gland, starch, gall bladder
ii) Stomach, liver, pancreas, salivary gland
iii) Tongue, absorption, taste, swallow
iv) Oesophagus, small intestine, large intestine, rectum

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Absorption, amino acids, amboea, assimilation, bile, buccal, cavity, canine, cellulose, digestion, egestion, fatty acids, food vacuole, gall bladder, glycerol, incisors, ingestion, liver, milk teeth, molar, permanent teeth, oesophagus, pancreas, premolar, pseudopodia, rumen, ruminants, ruminations, salivary glands, villi, saliva.

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