Question

What is a Lysosome? Give its function.

Answer 1

A lysosome is a membrane-bound organelle reported to be found in almost all animal cells.

Inside a cell, numerous organelles are active in removing wastes.

One of the major organelles involved in waste removal is the lysosome. 

Lysosomes are types of organelles that contain digestive enzymes.

They digest food particles, and engulfed viruses or bacteria.

Lysosomes are similar to the stomach of the cell.

Lysosomes are captured shrouded by a membrane .

The membrane consists of phospholipids that protect the inside of the lysosomes from the external environment.

Answer 2

What is a Lysosome? Give its function.

A vesicles within cells that digest large molecules through the use of hydrolytic enzymes.

1. Break the outside materials.
2. Keep the cell clean.
3. Removal of dead cells.
4. Help in protein synthesis.
5. Digest foreign particles.
6. Engulfed viruses or bacteria.