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vacuole

[vak-yoo-ohl] / ˈvæk yuˌoʊl /


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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

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

Food captured in the oral groove enters a food vacuole, where it combines with digestive enzymes.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The contractile vacuole is in the anterior neck-like portion of the body.

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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