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vacuole

noun as in cell

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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.

The detachment of the protrusion from the cell membrane results in the formation of a vacuole within the neighboring cell.

The pathogen inside this vacuole then breaks free by utilizing its T6SS to disrupt the surrounding cell membrane.

This specific gene is coded for a form of rhodopsin that would be inserted into the cell's vacuole, a part of the cell that, like mitochondria, can turn chemical gradients made by proteins like rhodopsin into energy.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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