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Dictionary » V » Vacuole VacuoleDefinition noun, plural: vacuoles A membrane-bound vesicle found in the cytoplasm of a cell whose function includes intracellular secretion, excretion, storage, and digestion.
It can be found in animal and plant cells, and it can be especially conspicuous in plant cells.
Related forms: vacuolar (adjective).
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Results from our forumEukaryotic and Prokaryotic... are not only the presence/absence of cell walls, but in plant cells we find some organelles not present in animal cells, such as a large central vacuole, different plastids (of which the green chloroplasts, which are performing photosysnthesis are best known) and lack of centrioles.
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Amoeba, Paramecium, Diatom... and ciliates. These are ingested into the cell by pseudopodia or false feet, they surround the prey and trap it in tiny drop of water forming food vacuole. I think Paramecium are found in freshwater ponds, lakes, streams, rivers and puddles. Some can even live in the bodies of animals or in most ...
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Amoeba, Paramecium, Diatom... and ciliates. These are ingested into the cell by pseudopodia or false feet, they surround the prey and trap it in tiny drop of water forming food vacuole. I think Paramecium are found in freshwater ponds, lakes, streams, rivers and puddles. Some can even live in the bodies of animals or in most ...
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boundaries for a substance to cross to enter the vacuole.there are three boundaries for a substance to cross to enter the vacuole in a plant cell, what are these boundaries>?
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