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Words related to vacuole

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  • food vacuole

    a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.

  • -ole

    denoting an organic unsaturated compound containing a 5-membered ring

  • cell sap

    the watery fluid within the central vacuole of a plant cell.

  • contractile vacuole

    a membrane-enveloped cellular organelle, found in many microorganisms, that periodically expands, filling with water, and then contracts, expelling its contents to the cell exterior: thought to be important in maintaining hydrostatic equilibrium.

  • endocytosis

    The taking in of matter by a living cell by invagination of its membrane to form a vacuole.

  • phagosome

    a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
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