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 pathogen inside this vacuole then breaks free by utilizing its T6SS to disrupt the surrounding cell membrane.
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
Food captured in the oral groove enters a food vacuole, where it combines with digestive enzymes.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
There is always one nucleus and one vacuole, but both may be more numerous.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
Vocabulary lists containing vacuole
Cell Biology - Middle School
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Life Science: Cell Biology
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Cell Biology - High School
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