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Macrophages of the immune system are capable of engulfing (or eating) other cells. However, this engulfing process is not a random event. When an infected cell comes along, the macrophage engulfs it.
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∙ 11y agoDepends on the cell. Only cells without cell walls can eat other cells (a process called phagocytosis). This excludes prokaryotes, plants, and most algae. (Fungi get around this by digesting food on the outside and then absorbing the nutrients.)
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What is a process that changes the nature of cells?
When the plant eats. This changes the plant cells because, when the plant eats it absorbs what it eats which is water, if you were to look at a picture of a plant cell with water in it after the plant "eats" the water the plant cell looks like it has less liquid in it.
Cells are specified to do what?
eats potato chips like a freak! eats potato chips like a freak!
What is an organism that eats other living thing called?
Carnivore if it eats meat. Omnivore if it eats both. If it is a carnivore that eats insects it is engaging in entomophagy.
What is the function of lysosomes in a cell?
The lysosome is a vesicle that has digestive juices in it. when the cell becomes attacked by a germ, the lysosome bursts and releases the juice. then the cell eats itself and the germ is killed and the leftover organelles are reused by other cells.
What eats a micro-organism?
nothing does because microorganisms can't eat
Is paramecium harmful?
paramecium is definitely not dangerous because it only eats bacteria and other small cells.
How does a virus eats?
the cells breed
What kind of food does amoeba eat?
The Amoeba eats Algea, Bacteria, Plant Cells, and aslo other unicellular organisms
What is a process that changes the nature of cells?
When the plant eats. This changes the plant cells because, when the plant eats it absorbs what it eats which is water, if you were to look at a picture of a plant cell with water in it after the plant "eats" the water the plant cell looks like it has less liquid in it.
What do white cells?
they swallow and eats up the germs
What type of worm eats fat cells?
ringworm
What eats dead organelles and cleans cells?
The lysosome is what eats dead organelles and cleans up the cell.
Cells are specified to do what?
eats potato chips like a freak! eats potato chips like a freak!
Do white blood cells have phagocytes?
Some white blood cells are phagocytes. The word means "cell that eats".
What is it called when your immune system eats your whit blood cells?
phagocytosis
What do the cytoplasm do in plant cells?
the cytoplasms eats away the glucose sugar!
Where is waste from cells sent to be taken away?
a lysosome eats the waste up
