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

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

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023

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

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

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

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)