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| When a red blood cell gets old and worn out a
white blood cell surrounds and engulfs it,
forming
a vesicle that then fuses with a Lysosome. What
is
this process called? |
| Question Date: 2012-08-25 | | Answer 1:
This can be called either endocytosis
(any "food particle" being taken into a cell),
degradation (destroying proteins), or
phagocytosis.
| | Answer 2:
The process of envelopment is called
phagocytosis. I don't know if the fusion with
the lysosome has a specific name or not.
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