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vacuole

[vak-yoo-ohl] / ˈvæk juˌoʊl /


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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

Vacuoles are somewhat larger than vesicles, and the membrane of a vacuole does not fuse with the membranes of other cellular components.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

One important difference is the presence of only one contractile vacuole in the marine form.

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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