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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

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

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

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

We have received the impression that we have here to deal with a vacuole filled with substance secreted by the cell.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.




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