vacuole

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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

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

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023

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

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

In the ability of Amoeba to contract into a spherical mass, and in the presence in its protoplasm of the contractile vacuole, we see another type of spontaneous movement—contractility—of the protoplasm.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various