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podryga [215]
4 years ago
8

I digest waste and recycle old cell parts.What type of cell organelle am I?

Biology
1 answer:
klasskru [66]4 years ago
6 0
You are a Lysosome!

Lysosomes:
<span>- Common in animal cells.
- Helps cell digest proteins.
- Cleanup crew of the cell.
- Contain powerful chemicals that digest nutrient molecules in the cell.
- When other organelles stop working, the lysosomes break down and recycle the old cell parts so they can be used again.
- The chemicals in the lysosomes only break down unhealthy cell parts. - ------ Membrane surrounds the lysosomes to stop them from destroying the rest of the cell
</span>
Hope I helped! :)
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