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What are the roles of the lysosome?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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14y ago

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Lysosomes have several functions. They are:

1) Intracellular digestion

2) Destroy foreign substances

3)When cell is old or injured, these rapidly destroy cell organelles(hence called suicide bags)

4)formation of bones by digesting cartilages.

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Lysosomes are organelles that digest food, waste particles and foreign pathogens such as viruses and bacterias.

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Lysosomes perform digesting part.They destroy unneeded things.

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