-Lysosomes are organelles that contain digestive enzymes. They digest excess or worn out organelles, food particles, and engulfed viruses or bacteria.
-Each lysosome is surrounded by a membrane that maintains an acidic environment within the interior via a proton pump. They contain digestive enzymes (acid hydrolases). They digest excess or worn-out organelles, food particles, and engulfed viruses or bacteria, by breaking down macromolecules such as nucleic acids, proteins, and polysaccharides.
NUCLEIC ACIDS are naturally occurring chemical compounds that serve as the primary information-carrying molecules in cells and makeup the genetic material. Nucleic acids are found in abundance in all living things, where they create, encode, and then store information of every living cell of every life-form on Earth.
