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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

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

The central vacuole expands, enlarging the cell without the need to produce more cytoplasm.

From Textbooks Apr. 25, 2013

The contractile vacuole is terminal, the proboscis is short, slightly raised and separated from the body by a deep cleft; the buccal cilia are inserted part way up on the proboscis.

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




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