{"id":7206,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/acrosome\/"},"modified":"2019-07-18T13:09:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T13:09:16","slug":"acrosome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/acrosome\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrosome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A membrane-bound organelle at the tip of a sperm derived from the Golgi apparatus, which contains lytic enzymes that digest the outer coatings around the egg so that it can enter the ovum and inject its haploid DNA (see figure below).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image004.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Acrosome at tip of sperm and related structures<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: left;\">See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/dna_-deoxyribonucleic_acid\/\">DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/enzyme\/\">Enzyme<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fertilization_-or_syngamy\/\">Fertilization<\/a> (or syngamy), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/flagella\/\">Flagella<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/golgi_apparatus_-body_or_complex_or_organ\/\">Golgi apparatus<\/a> (body or complex or organ), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/haploid\/\">Haploid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/microtubules\/\">Microtubules<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/mitochondria\/\">Mitochondria<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/organelles\/\">Organelles<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spermatozoa\/\">Spermatozoa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A membrane-bound organelle at the tip of a sperm derived from the Golgi apparatus, which contains lytic enzymes that digest the outer coatings around the egg so that it can enter the ovum and inject its haploid DNA (see figure below). \u00a0 Acrosome at tip of sperm and related structures See DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), Enzyme, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/acrosome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Acrosome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7206"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9645,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions\/9645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}