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
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 terminal, the proboscis is short, slightly raised and separated from the body by a deep cleft; the buccal cilia are inserted part way up on the proboscis.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins
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Life Science: Cell Biology
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