Download congratulations!!! you have found the vacuole!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
YOU HAVE FOUND THE
VACUOLE!
How is the book room like the vacuole?
What would represent the food, the water, and the waste?
The vacuole is a very important cell organelle to all types of cells but it has the most
important job in the plant cell. You can think of the vacuole as a storage container.
They can store water, food, and waste and they help to maintain the correct pH balance
in the cell. Vacuoles also isolate unwanted bacteria and dispose of them so they do not
harm the cell. The vacuoles in both plant and animal cells are made from Golgi bodies
inside the cell and they are made up of multiple membrane vesicles. Certain substances
created by the cell that are unwanted and could be harmful to other organelles are
isolated and taken care of by being sent to the Golgi bodies. The vacuoles also work
together with the lysosomes to break down the materials that come in to the cell in to
forms that are usable by the mitochondria during ATP synthesis. Vacuoles bring their
stored material to any organelle inside the cell that needs it or to other cells if they need
the stored material.
Vacuoles in plant and animal cells are different in size and numbers but they ultimately
have the same functions although a plant cell’s vacuole would process chlorophyll and
chloroplast while the animal cell does not even have chloroplast organelles. In a plant
cell, there is one central vacuole that takes up approximately 80% of the cell. Animal
cells have many vacuoles but they are really small. Their vacuoles are crucial in the
processes of endocytosis and exocytosis. The main function of the vacuole in
exocytosis is the storage of materials that are waiting to be excreted. In endocytosis,
materials are engulfed by the vacuoles after entering the cell.