Examples of peroxisome in the following topics:
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- Peroxisomes neutralize harmful toxins and carry out lipid metabolism and oxidation reactions that break down fatty acids and amino acids.
- Peroxisomes perform important functions, including lipid metabolism and chemical detoxification.
- In this way, peroxisomes neutralize poisons, such as alcohol, that enter the body.
- In order to appreciate the importance of peroxisomes, it is necessary to understand the concept of reactive oxygen species.
- Peroxisomes oversee reactions that neutralize free radicals.
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- Peroxisomes are small, round organelles enclosed by single membranes; they carry out oxidation reactions that break down fatty acids and amino acids.
- Peroxisomes also detoxify many poisons that may enter the body.
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- The last common ancestor of all eukaryotes is believed to have been a phagotrophic protist with a nucleus, at least one centriole and cilium, facultatively aerobic mitochondria, sex (meiosis), a dormant cyst with a cell wall of chitin, cellulose, and peroxisomes.
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- The possibility that the peroxisome organelles may have an endosymbiotic origin has also been considered, although they lack DNA.
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- Each eukaryotic cell has a plasma membrane, cytoplasm, a nucleus, ribosomes, mitochondria, peroxisomes, and in some, vacuoles; however, there are some striking differences between animal and plant cells.