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Write down the functions of lysosomes.

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Functions of lysosomes:
1. Intracellular digestion: They digest carbohydrates , proteins and lipids present in cytoplasm.
2. Autophagy : During adverse condition they digest their own cell organelles like mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum.
3. Autolysis : Lysosome causes self destruction of cell on insight of disease they destroy the cells.
4. Ageing : Lysosomes have autolytic enzymes that disrupts intracellular molecules.
5. Phagocytosis. : Large cells or contents are engulfed and digested by macrophages, thus forming a phagosome in cytoplasm. These phagosome fuse with lysosome for further digestion.
6. Exocytosis. : Lysosomes release their enzymes outerside the cell to digest other cells.
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