Question

What are microbodies in animal cells?

Answer 1

Microbodies:

1. Microbodies are present in the cytoplasm of a cell, so they are known as cytosomes.
2. They are very small in size, ~0.2-1.5‎ μm and can be seen under the electron microscope.

Some of the common characteristics of microbodies are:

1. They are vesicular and mostly spherical in shape
2. They are enclosed in a single membrane of a phospholipid bilayer
3. The intracellular matrix contains proteins and enzymes
4. They do not contain separate DNA