vacuole

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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 detachment of the protrusion from the cell membrane results in the formation of a vacuole within the neighboring cell.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024

Burnetti hoped the rhodopsin would find its way into the yeast’s vacuole, an enzyme-laden sac that degrades unneeded proteins.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 18, 2023

If you look at Figure 3.7, you will see that plant cells each have a large, central vacuole that occupies most of the cell.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

The flagellum is inserted in a distinct œsophageal tube, into which the contractile vacuole empties.

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