what does this city and an animal cell have in common they both need to store water and other materials welcome to moomoomath and science and vacuous vacuole store water and waste and other materials in eukaryotic cells remember eukaryotic cells ourselves with membrane bound organelles and a nucleus vacuoles are storage sacks in plants and animals and even produce but they are not found in bacterial cells in addition to storing water vacuoles also store enzymes waste and even old damaged organelles let's take a look at the difference between a vacuole in a plant and an animal cell on the left you'll notice that the vacuole for the plant is very large in fact the vacuole may take up to 40 to 80 percent of the plants cells volume vacuoles are much smaller in animal cells and there are multiple vacuums the vacuole implant helped give the plant support watching this video when the vacuole is filling up with water the vacuole regulates the turgor pressure which is the force within the cell that pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall some single celled protists have what is called a contractile vacuole which opens and closes to regulate the amount of water inside the protists so in summary a vacuole is used for storage of water waste and other materials and helps to regulate the amount of fluid inside a cell if you'd like to know more about the cells organelles this playlist will help and as always thanks for watching and moomoomath uploads a new math and science video every day please subscribe and share you