A vacuole with a digestive function in the protoplasm of a protozoan.
Example sentencesExamples
Myzocytotic uptake of prey cell cytoplasm leads to a food vacuole with a single membrane separating two cytoplasmic compartments.
The remaining vacuoles seen in Figure 2.1 and 2.2, may be food vacuoles.
Due to the acid environment in the P. falciparum food vacuole, all histidine residues in the model were modeled using the AMBER HIP residue.
Control cells make approximately one food vacuole per minute and therefore appear full of black dots.
Trophic positions were determined from published accounts of food preference, direct observation of feeding, inspection of food vacuoles, and knowledge of culture requirements.
Definition of food vacuole in US English:
food vacuole
noun
Biology
A vacuole with a digestive function in the protoplasm of a protozoan.
Example sentencesExamples
The remaining vacuoles seen in Figure 2.1 and 2.2, may be food vacuoles.
Myzocytotic uptake of prey cell cytoplasm leads to a food vacuole with a single membrane separating two cytoplasmic compartments.
Trophic positions were determined from published accounts of food preference, direct observation of feeding, inspection of food vacuoles, and knowledge of culture requirements.
Due to the acid environment in the P. falciparum food vacuole, all histidine residues in the model were modeled using the AMBER HIP residue.
Control cells make approximately one food vacuole per minute and therefore appear full of black dots.