Multiple choice

Phagocytosis is a process by which certain living cells ingest or engulf other cells or particles. Which of the following cell types are phagocytic in nature?

  1. Hepatocytes

  2. Lymphocytes

  3. Monocytes

  4. Erythrocytes

  5. Plasma cells

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Explanation

Phagocytosis is the process of uptake of microbes and particles followed by digestion and destruction of this material. Monocytes can perform phagocytosis using intermediary (opsonising) proteins such as antibodies or complement that coat the pathogen, as well as by binding to the microbe directly via pattern-recognition receptors that recognise pathogens.