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chloroplast definition

chloro·plast (klôrə plast′)

noun

a green, oval plastid containing chlorophyll and carotenoids and found in the cytoplasm of green plants and blue-green algae

Etymology: chloro- + -plast

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chloroplast Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: In addition, it has a single chloroplast, which makes it easy to produce a uniformly transformed culture.

Adjective modifier

  • green: 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.

Noun used with modifier

  • plant: Frey J. Genetic flexibility of plant chloroplasts, Nature 1998, 398, 115-6.

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.

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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