Card 4 / 20: Visit this website ( http://openstaxcollege.org/l/chemotaxis ) to learn about phagocyte chemotaxis. Phagocyte chemotaxis is the movement of phagocytes according to the secretion of chemical messengers in the form of interleukins and other chemokines. By what means does a phagocyte destroy a bacterium that it has ingested?
Answer:
The bacterium is digested by the phagocyte's digestive enzymes (contained in its lysosomes).
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