The next time you exercise and sweat, taste the sweat on your hand or antebrachium – it will taste salty. Which type of gland produces this secretion and helps cool you off? endocrine glands apocrine sweat glands O holocrine sweat glands O merocrine sweat glands

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The next time you exercise and sweat, taste the sweat on your hand or
antebrachium – it will taste salty. Which type of gland produces this secretion
and helps cool you off?
endocrine glands
apocrine sweat glands
holocrine sweat glands
O merocrine sweat glands
Transcribed Image Text:The next time you exercise and sweat, taste the sweat on your hand or antebrachium – it will taste salty. Which type of gland produces this secretion and helps cool you off? endocrine glands apocrine sweat glands holocrine sweat glands O merocrine sweat glands
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Sweat glands are also known as sudoriparous or sudoriferous glands that are tubular structures present in the skin which help maintain temperature of the body. Sweat glands are exocrine glands because they secrete its products onto the surface of the skin via ducts. Sweat is produced to cool the body. When the sweat evaporates from the surface of the skin, it provides a cooling effect thus reducing the temperature. 

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