What are cell inclusions
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★ Cell inclusions
Cell inclusions are considered various nutrients or pigments that can be found within the cell, but do not have activity like other organelles. Examples of cell inclusions are glycogen, lipids, and pigments such as melanin, lipofuscin, and hemosiderin.
There are non - living structures of the cytoplasm . These include :
★ Reserve food :-
It is present either in the form of grains. ( e.g. Starch grains of potato Tuber cells) or granules ( e.g. of glycogen in liver and muscle cells) ; or droplets ( eg. Oil droplets in fat cells).
★ Vacuoles :-
These are absent from the prokaryotes. These are, small size but many in number in animal cells while plant cells have single and large central vacuoles ( while occupies 50 - 90 % of the cell volume), so the nucleus and cell organelles are pushed near the cell wall.
A vacuole is formed of outer limiting membrane, called tonoplast, and a liquid inside called cell sap.
Cell sap exerts an outward trugor pressure while vacuoles act as storage sacs of water, minerals toxic metabolitics etc.