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Lysosome vs Mesosome - What's the difference?

lysosome | mesosome |

As nouns the difference between lysosome and mesosome

is that lysosome is an organelle found in all types of animal cells which contains a large range of digestive enzymes capable of splitting most biological macromolecules while mesosome is a folded invagination in the plasma membrane of bacteria, produced by the chemical fixation techniques used to prepare samples for electron microscopy, but previously thought to be part of the normal structure of the cell.

lysosome

English

(wikipedia lysosome)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cytology) An organelle found in all types of animal cells which contains a large range of digestive enzymes capable of splitting most biological macromolecules.

    • mesosome

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia mesosome)
  • A folded invagination in the plasma membrane of bacteria, produced by the chemical fixation techniques used to prepare samples for electron microscopy, but previously thought to be part of the normal structure of the cell.