inside surface of the plasma membrane to form a membrane-enclosed bubble, or vesicle, containing the ingested material. There are two main types of endocytosis that are distinguished by the size of the vesicle formed and the cellular machinery involved. Pinocytosis (cell drinking) describes the internalization of extracellular fluid and small macromolecules by means of small vesicles.
junket (plural junkets) (obsolete) A basket. A type of cream cheese, originally made in a rush basket; later, a food made of sweetened curds or rennet.
Space Junk redirects here. For other uses, see Space Junk (disambiguation). A computer-generated image representing space debris as seen from high Earth orbit (HEO). The two main debris fields are the ring of objects in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) and the cloud of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO).