Food vacuole

The food vacuole is an organelle. It acts as a digestive system. It is found in simple eukaryotes such as protists. This organelle is essentially a lysosome. It is also called the digestive vacuole.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Banerjee, Ritu. Four plasmepsins are active in the Plasmodium falciparum food vacuole, including a protease with an active-site histidine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99 (2) (2002-01-22). p. 990–995. doi:10.1073/pnas.022630099.
↑ Mast, S. O.. The food-vacuole in paramecium. The Biological Bulletin 92 (1) (1947-02-01). p. 31–72. doi:10.2307/1537967.

[1] Banerjee, Ritu. Four plasmepsins are active in the Plasmodium falciparum food vacuole, including a protease with an active-site histidine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99 (2) (2002-01-22). p. 990–995. doi:10.1073/pnas.022630099.

[2] Mast, S. O.. The food-vacuole in paramecium. The Biological Bulletin 92 (1) (1947-02-01). p. 31–72. doi:10.2307/1537967.

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