organelles

Cultural  

1. Parts of a cell that store food, discharge waste, produce energy, or perform other functions analogous to what organs do in large living things.

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Example Sentences

One common trend is the reduction or loss of plastids -- a category of plant organelles that includes chloroplasts, which enable photosynthesis in most plants.

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Eukaryotes are living things with cells that contain a nucleus and other specialized structures called organelles.

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It is most often used to study how macromolecules, cellular organelles, or cells are spatially organized, providing structural and contextual insights at sub-nanometer resolution.

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The ion channel controls the breakdown of important proteins in endolysosomes -- cell organelles that are involved in transport and degradation processes -- and thus influences signaling pathways that regulate tumor growth.

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It's a core function, but little studied in the setting of cancer immunology, especially when compared to other organelles like the mitochondria or endoplasmic reticulum.

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