Question

Give one point of difference between phagocytosis and pinocytosis

Answer 1

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● Difference between phagocytosis and pinocytosis -

• Phagocytosis involves uptake of solid substance while pinocytosis involves uptake of fluids.
• Phagocytosis forms phagosomes while pinocytosis forms pinosomes.
• Phagocytosis is also known as cell eating while pinocytosis is called cell drinking.
• Phagocytosis example - engulfing bactetia by phagocyte. Pinocytosis example - uptake of hormones by vesicles.

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Answer 2

Phagocytosis and Pinocytosis:

• Phagocytosis is processed by which a cell protrudes pseudopodia towards a particle and engulfs it into itself and pinches off that part of cell membrane that actually surrounds the particle. Then it’s a vacuole.
• It fuses with a primary lysosome and forms a secondary lysosome which then digests particle inside and excretory product is then ejected out of cell by a process just reverse that of Phagocytosis.
• Pinocytosis, on other hand, is just same as that of Phagocytosis but, only difference is that particle that is to be engulfed here is a liquid then being solid.