Lysosomes form a kind of demolition squads of the animal cell.

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Lysosomes are known as the demolition squad as it acts as a scavengers and cellular housekeepers to remove the worn out and poorly working cellular organelles by digesting them.

This organelle contains digestive or hydrolytic enzymes.

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Why is lysosome called a demolition squad?

Q. Lysosomes are called by different names such as suicidal bags of the cell, cells waste disposal system or demolition squads. Justify.

Identify the following organelle and give reason for these names assigned to them:

(1) Traffic police the cell

(2) suicide bags

(3) powerhouse of the cell

(4) Demolition squads

(5) rough and smooth type

(6) garbage disposal System

(7) bio chemical machines

(8) housekeepers

Animal cell and plant cell both have Golgi bodies and Golgi bodies helps in formation of lysosomes, then why the lysosomes are present only in animal cell?

Do animal cells have lysosomes?

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Lysosomes form a kind of demolition squads of the animal cell.

Lysosomes are known as the demolition squad as it acts as a scavengers and cellular housekeepers to remove the worn out and poorly working cellular organelles by digesting them. This organelle contains digestive or hydrolytic enzymes.

Lysosomes are known as the demolition squad as it acts as a scavengers and cellular housekeepers to remove the worn out and poorly working cellular organelles by digesting them.

This organelle contains digestive or hydrolytic enzymes.