Why lysosome know as sucide bags

1.	Why lysosome know as sucide bags
Answer» Lysosomes are cellular organelles that contain digestive enzymes that break down waste materials, foreign material and cellular debris. Lysosomes are capable of digesting nucleic acid, polysaccharides, fats, and proteins. Along with them lysosomes also digest or damage its own cells by its own enzymes, which lead to cell death. This process is called as autolysis. Hence lysosomes are also called as suicide bags. when the cell get damage lysosomes may burst or digest their own enzymes.therefore it is called suicide bag

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