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vacuole

[vak-yoo-ohl] / ˈvæk juˌoʊl /


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The plant's garbage collectors collect waste from cells and transport it to a kind of recycling station in the plant called a vacuole.

From Science Daily May 15, 2024

A vacuole is a structure reserved for storage and digestion within a cell.

From Science Daily Dec. 1, 2023

Increasing the acidity inside the vacuole may decrease it outside the vacuole, causing enzymes there to work faster and wear out sooner, which may also help explain the higher death rate among these altered cells.

From Science Magazine Apr. 18, 2023

Plant cells have a cell wall, chloroplasts, plasmodesmata, and plastids used for storage, and a large central vacuole, whereas animal cells do not.

From Textbooks Apr. 25, 2013

Contractile vacuole terminal, with sometimes one or two further forward.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)




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