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    What Are Lysosomes?

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    Lysosomes are cellular organelles bounded by a single membrane that contain digestive enzymes. They break down waste materials, nutrients, and foreign objects in the cell. Lysosomes also break down cells after they die through a process of controlled digestion. They vary in shape and size but are generally small, ranging from 0.1 to 1.2 μm. Lysosomes are formed by budding off the Golgi apparatus and contain hydrolytic enzymes produced in the endoplasmic reticulum that help break down macromolecules.

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    Lysosomes are cellular organelles bounded by a single membrane that contain digestive enzymes. They break down waste materials, nutrients, and foreign objects in the cell. Lysosomes also break down cells after they die through a process of controlled digestion. They vary in shape and size but are generally small, ranging from 0.1 to 1.2 μm. Lysosomes are formed by budding off the Golgi apparatus and contain hydrolytic enzymes produced in the endoplasmic reticulum that help break down macromolecules.

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    Lysosomes are cellular organelles bounded by a single membrane that contain digestive enzymes. They break down waste materials, nutrients, and foreign objects in the cell. Lysosomes also break down cells after they die through a process of controlled digestion. They vary in shape and size but are generally small, ranging from 0.1 to 1.2 μm. Lysosomes are formed by budding off the Golgi apparatus and contain hydrolytic enzymes produced in the endoplasmic reticulum that help break down macromolecules.

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    Lysosomes are cellular organelles bounded by a single membrane that contain digestive enzymes. They break down waste materials, nutrients, and foreign objects in the cell. Lysosomes also break down cells after they die through a process of controlled digestion. They vary in shape and size but are generally small, ranging from 0.1 to 1.2 μm. Lysosomes are formed by budding off the Golgi apparatus and contain hydrolytic enzymes produced in the endoplasmic reticulum that help break down macromolecules.

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    Lysosomes are the cellular organelles that contain digestive enzymes that

    break down waste materials, foreign materials and foreign particles that
    entered cell. It helps the cell to process its nutrients and is responsible for
    destroying the cell after it has died. It is bounded by only one single
    membrane. It break-down the structures within the cells. However in
    certain circumstances may be in case of diseases or some conditions
    lysosomes begin to break-down living cells. This article deals with why
    lysosomes are known as suicidal bags of the cell, Importance of
    lysosomes, its structure and formation.
    What are Lysosomes?

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    Lysosomes are present in animal and are membrane-bound organelles.
    They have single outer membrane which consists of acid hydrolase
    enzyme that helps in breaking-down macromolecules and a phospholipid
    bilayer.
    What is the structure of lysosomes?
    Lysosomes are spherical organelles which contain a single layer
    membrane, but its shape and size varies. They are generally very small,
    ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 µm but they can reach up to 1.2 µm. The lipids
    that make up the bilayer are phospholipids, which are molecules that
    have hydrophilic phosphate group heads, a glycerol molecule, and
    hydrophobic fatty acid tails. When they are placed in a solution containing
    water phospholipids naturally form double-layered membranes, the
    phosphate group head move outside the layer and fatty acid tail move
    inside of the layer away from water.
    Source: www. media.buzzle.com
    Structure of Plant and Animal Cell
    Do you know phospholipids make many other membranes in the cell like
    nuclear membrane that surrounds the nucleus, golgi apparatus and
    endoplasmic reticulum.
    Lysosomes are formed by budding off of the Golgi apparatus, and the
    hydrolytic enzymes within them are formed in the endoplasmic reticulum.
    The enzymes are tagged with the molecule mannose-6-phosphate,
    transported to the Golgi apparatus in vesicles, and then packaged into the
    lysosomes.

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