Question

what is the function of the vacoule?

Answer 1

The main function of vacuole is to isolate materials that might be harmful to the cell.

Answer 2

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• Vacoules are storage sacs for liquids and solids.

• Vacoules are small in size in animal cell but they are large in plant cell.

• Central vacoule of plant cell may occupies 50-90 % of the cell volume.

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• In plant cells the vacoules are full of cell sap and provides the turgidity and rigidity of the cell.

• Substances like amino acids , sugar , various organic acids and proteins are stored in vacoules.

• In amoeba the food vacoules contains the food item that amoeba has consumed.

• Vacoules play important role in expelling excess water and some wastes from the cell of unicellular organisms.