What organelles perform the digestive function of the cell?

Answer 1

The digestive organelles of a cell are - peroxisomes, vesicles/vacuoles and lysosomes.

Peroxisomes are single membrane sacs that contain digestive enzymes that break down toxic materials in a cell. They also break down fatty acids to sugars.

Vacuoles/vesicles are found in plant cells and some animal cells. Vacuoles and vesicles are membrane bound but the vacuoles are stationary and vesicles can move within the cell.

Vacuoles are of three different types - food vacuoles, contractile vacuoles and central vacuoles.

1. food vacuoles are involved in ingesting food into the cell through a process called phagocytosis
2. contractile vacuoles are found in fresh water protists and are involved in pumping excess water out of the cell
3. central vacuoles are found in mature plant cells that store water so that the plants do not die

Vesicles are of two different types -

1. transport vesicles that take the protein from the rough Endoplasmic Reticulum and transport it to the Golgi Bodies
2. secretory vesicles that carry the finished proteins to the cell membranes

Lysosomes are vesicles that are sacs containing digestive enzymes, These are found only in animal cells. Their function is to digest macromolecules and clean up any dead organelles. For cellular digestion the lysosomes fuse with the food vacuole to break down the polymers.

Answer 2

its acts like the lysosoe as it digests the broken down food

Answer 3

Lysosmes are responsible for that. They contain digestive enzymes

Answer 4

It is the lysosome. They involve in cellular digesion

Answer 5

they go for the root

Answer 6

lysosome through food vacoule

Answer 7

lysosome

Answer 8

lysosomes