The pancreas is an elongated gland that secretes both digestive enzymes and hormones that help regulate the level of glucose in the blood. Among its enzymes are trypsin and chymotrypsin, which digest polypeptide to dipetides; pancreatic lipase, which degrade fats; pancreatic amylase; which breaks down almost all types of carbohydrates, except cellulose, to disaccharides; and ribonucleases and deoxyribonucleases which split the nucleic acids [ribonu cleic acid (RNA)] and [deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)] to free nucleotides.