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CELL BIOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ____ stores food, water, wastes, and other materials in both plant and animal cells.
A
Vacuole
B
Mitochondria
C
Cytoplasm
D
Nucleus
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Vacuole: A membrane-bound organelle that helps a cell retain its shape and store things like water, food, and waste.

Detailed explanation-2: -The vacuole is a large, round sac found in the cytoplasm. It stores water, food, wastes, or other materials needed by the cell.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vacuoles are membrane-bound organelles that can be found in both animals and plants. In a way, they’re specialized lysosomes. That is to say that their function is really to handle waste products, and by handle, mean take in waste products and also get rid of waste products.

Detailed explanation-4: -The vacuole holds large amounts of water or food. Don’t forge that vacuoles can also hold the plant waste products. Those waste products are slowly broken into small pieces that cannot hurt the cell. Vacuoles hold onto things that the cell might need, just like a backpack.

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