Food vacuole

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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]

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  1. Banerjee, Ritu; Liu, Jun; Beatty, Wandy; Pelosof, Lorraine; Klemba, Michael; Goldberg, Daniel E. (2002-01-22). "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): 990–995. doi:10.1073/pnas.022630099. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 117418. PMID 11782538.
  2. Mast, S. O. (1947-02-01). "The food-vacuole in paramecium". The Biological Bulletin. 92 (1): 31–72. doi:10.2307/1537967. ISSN 0006-3185. JSTOR 1537967. PMID 20284992.