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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

By attaching a green fluorescent tag to the protein, he and his colleagues verified that it had localized to the yeast’s vacuole, as they hoped.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 18, 2023

Plant cells have a cell wall, chloroplasts, and a central vacuole.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

This organism is remarkable in one or two ways: it possesses a contractile vacuole; the amoeboid trophozoites tend to form plasmodia; and the spores, of the usual simple type, may apparently divide by binary fission.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various




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