chloroplast
chloroplast
Definition
chloro·plast (klôr′ə plast′)
chloroplast
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- have: In addition, it has a single chloroplast, which makes it easy to produce a uniformly transformed culture.
- contain: Figure: Irrigation technique for introducing a stain under a coverslip Awaiting image 3. These cells do not contain chloroplasts - why?
- call: The electrons in cells called chloroplasts are excited by sunlight.
- use: The yellow-brown chloroplasts used for photosynthesis are also easy to see.
- develop: It is clear therefore that there is an intimate relationship between the metabolic processes in the developing chloroplast and nuclear gene expression.
Adjective modifier
- green: Each cell is nearly circular and a single bright green chloroplast fills the entire cell.
- functional: The origin of these areas that lack functional green chloroplasts is in primordial tissue.
- single: Each cell is nearly circular and a single bright green chloroplast fills the entire cell.
- bright: Each cell is nearly circular and a single bright green chloroplast fills the entire cell.
Modifies a noun
- transgenes: Experimental data documenting the stability of chloroplast transgenes are nonexistent.
- transgene: But chloroplast transgene containment is known not to be completely effective [ 5,6 ] .
- peptide: A glyphosate-resistant plant cell of Claim 22 in which the chloroplast transit peptide is from a plant EPSPS gene... .
- genome: A PCR RFLP data set was collected from 8 noncoding regions of the chloroplast genome for 40 species.
- transit: A glyphosate-resistant plant cell of Claim 22 in which the chloroplast transit peptide is from a plant EPSPS gene... .
- DNA: I managed to isolate pure chloroplast DNA in about an hour.
Noun used with modifier
- plant: Frey J. Genetic flexibility of plant chloroplasts, Nature 1998, 398, 115-6.
- spinach: Envelope membranes from spinach chloroplasts are a site of metabolism of fatty acid hydroperoxides.
Preposition: in
- plant: Perhaps the most interesting example is the close genetic relationship between chloroplasts in plants and cyanobacteria which are capable of a form of photosynthesis.
- light: If you want to stop the production of chloroplasts in the light, this will require the use of inhibitors.
Preposition: of
- plant: The Cyanobacteria are quite small, and are about the same size as the internal chloroplasts of eukaryotic plants and algae.
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