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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

The pathogen inside this vacuole then breaks free by utilizing its T6SS to disrupt the surrounding cell membrane.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2024

By attaching a green fluorescent tag to the protein, he and his colleagues verified that it had localized to the yeast’s vacuole, as they hoped.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2023

In plant cells, the liquid inside the central vacuole provides turgor pressure, which is the outward pressure caused by the fluid inside the cell.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

Spores with two polar-capsules, and without an iodinophilous vacuole in the sporoplasm.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various


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