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Lysozyme is an enzyme found commonly in your tears. It defends your body against foreign invaders through you eyes. (You eyelashes also provide protection) The lysozyme damage bacterial cell walls via catalyzing hydrolysis.

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Lysosomes are organelles in animal cells that help break down substances. These substances are usually waste materials and cellular debris.

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Body secretions contain an enzyme called?

lysozyme


What happens if lysozyme fails?

Our body cannot fight all substances.


Lysozyme is found in the body secretions?

Saliva, tears, mucus, milk.


Is lysozyme in saliva and tears to destroy bacteria a body defense?

Yes. Lysozymes and enzymes


What is the antimicrobial enzyme found in tears?

lysozyme


How does mandrill defend it self?

it can defend by hes body


Drug resistant micro-organisms produce lysozyme?

Lysozyme is an enzyme occurring naturally in egg white, human tears, saliva, and other body fluids, capable of destroying the cell walls of certain bacteria and thereby acting as a mild antiseptic. Gram-negative bacteria are drug resistant micro-organisms that produce lysozyme.


What will happen if a bacterial cell is placed in distilled water with lysozyme?

lysozyme will diffuse in to the cell


What compensations does the body have to do to defend cardiac output if you hemorrhage?

what compensations does the body have to do to defend cardiac output


What does the T-cells do once in the body?

Defend body .


What can you test with Lysozyme?

basically...


What are the parts of your body that defend you?

your body defends most of your parts of your body