Phagocytosis

What role do enzymes play in phagocytosis?

• they destroy/digest pathogens

• they contain lysosomes

• they are destroyed by pathogens

What are phagocytes?

• cells whose sole job is to ingest and destroy pathogens

• the "false feet" that envelop pathogens or foreign material

• the capsules that are created when pathogens are ingested by a cell

What word most accurately describes stage 1?

• Phagocyte

• Pseudopod

• Phagosome

• Fusion

• Digestion

What word most accurately describes stage 2?

• Phagocyte

• Pseudopod

• Phagosome

• Fusion

• Digestion

What word most accurately describes stage 3?

• Phagocyte

• Pseudopod

• Phagosome

• Fusion

• Digestion

What word most accurately describes stage 4?

• Expulsion

• Pseudopod

• Phagosome

• Fusion

• Digestion

What word most accurately describes stage 5?

• Expulsion

• Pseudopod

• Phagosome

• Fusion

• Digestion

What word most accurately describes stage 6?

• Expulsion

• Pseudopod

• Phagosome

• Fusion

• Digestion

A Maverick burrito is a metaphor for which component of phagocytosis?

• the phagosome

• the pseudopod

• the pathogen

• the lysosome

A Maverick burrito moves from your hand to your mouth. A pathogen is moved into a cell by what structure?

• the phagosome

• the pseudopod

• the pathogen

• the lysosome