Explain lysomes to me. I don't understand complex words. Just tell me in plain English. Please Help!?

Answer 1

Lysosomes are usually referred to as "suicide sacs." They are the cell's garbage disposals.

They are used to digest bacterium that have been absorbed into the cell.

They are also used to digrade worn our organelles, such as mitochondria, ect...

Answer 2

In plain English: Lysosomes are formed from small pieces of the Golgi apparatus, and they contain lots of enzymes and are very acidic on the inside. They clean up the garbage inside the cell, and you can think of them kind of like your stomach - they break down food (and garbage) so that it can be used by the cell. If the cell eats another cell, like when a white blood cell eats a bacterial cell, the lysosomes breaks down the big pieces of the bacteria into smaller pieces that the white blood cell can use. If some of the organelles in the original cell are old or damaged, the lysosome can eat those, too. If the whole cell is damaged, the cell might go through 'autolysis', where the lysosome lets all of its contents go out into the rest of the cell. When this happens, the enzymes that were in the lysosome are free to digest everything inside the cell, which kills it.