What is Food vacuole?
The '''food vacuole''' is an organelle. It acts as a digestive system. It is found in simple eukaryotes such as [[protist]]s. This organelle is essentially a [[lysosome]]. It is also called the digestive vacuole.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Banerjee|first1=Ritu|last2=Liu|first2=Jun|last3=Beatty|first3=Wandy|last4=Pelosof|first4=Lorraine|last5=Klemba|first5=Michael|last6=Goldberg|first6=Daniel E.|date=2002-01-22|title=Four plasmepsins are active in the Plasmodium falciparum food vacuole, including a protease with an active-site histidine|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=99|issue=2|pages=990–995|doi=10.1073/pnas.022630099|issn=0027-8424|pmid=11782538|pmc=117418 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mast|first=S. O.|date=1947-02-01|title=The food-vacuole in paramecium|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/1537967|journal=The Biological Bulletin|volume=92|issue=1|pages=31–72|doi=10.2307/1537967|jstor=1537967 |pmid=20284992 |issn=0006-3185}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Organelles]] [[Category:Digestive system]] {{biology-stub}}