Function
This function of vacuoles is involved in breaking down waste materials inside the cell.
What is digestion?
True or false: The vacuole in the animal cell takes up 80% of the cell.
What is false?
This type of vacuole is primarily found in plant cells and helps maintain turgor pressure.
What is a central vacuole?
This is where vacuoles are not found.
What is bacterial cells?
The vacuole's membrane is known as this, which regulates the movement of materials in and out.
What is the tonoplast?
True or false: Plant cell vacuoles take up nearly 80% of the cell.
This type of vacuole aids in breaking down food particles for energy and nutrients.
What is the digestive vacuole?
"Vacuoles also store ____, _____, and even _______."
What is enzymes, waste, and old damaged organelles?
This function of vacuoles involves the storage of water, ions, and nutrients.
What is storage?
These two organelles are commonly located near the vacuole, involved in processing and transporting materials
What is endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus?
This type of vacuole serves the cell by storing nutrients, waste products, and other substances.
What is storage vacuole?
Plant vacuoles can take up from ___ to ___ % of the cell.
What is 40-80%
These specialized vacuoles in some plant cells store toxic compounds to deter herbivores and protect the plant.
What are defensive vacuoles?
The pressure exerted by the central vacuole against the cell wall in plant cells, crucial for maintaining cell shape and rigidity, is known as this.
What is turgor pressure?
This type of vacuole is responsible for expelling excess water.
What a city and a cell have in common.
What is they both need to regulate the amount of water?