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An organelle found in the cells of green plants, and in photosynthetic algae, where photosynthesis takes place.
Examples of chloroplast in a Sentence
These substances can, however, be dissolved out in water, and the green coloring matter of the chloroplast then becomes visible.
Sometimes several pyrenoids occur in each chloroplast.
Each cell is nearly circular and a single bright green chloroplast fills the entire cell.
A chloroplast is an organelle in green plants containing the light harvesting pigment chlorophyll.
The chloroplast consists of two parts, a colorless ground substance, and a green coloring matter, which is contained either in the form of fibrils, or in more or less regular spherical masses, in the colorless ground-mass.
In Spirogyra and allied forms the chloroplast grows as the cell grows, and only divides when this divides.
Proteins; Ligands; Heme; ChloroP prediction server ChloroP is a neural network-based method for predicting chloroplast transit peptides and their cleavage sites.
A transgenic tobacco trichome cell containing green fluorescent protein (GFP) targeted to the chloroplast outer envelope.
The subaerial part is tubular or ovoid, and contains the chloroplast (clil.).
This is met with in the form of small granular specks in the substance of the chloroplast, specks which assume a blue color when treated with a solution of iodine.
Sometimes several pyrenoids occur in each chloroplast, as in Mesocarpus and Spirogyra; sometimes only an occasional chloroplast contains pyrenoid at all, as in Cladophora.
Chloroplast transformation to produce GM pharmaceuticals entails specific risks that are associated with its advantages.
However this is not the case for the chloroplast complex which plays a distinct role in supplying acetyl CoA for fatty acid biosynthesis.
A glyphosate-resistant plant cell of Claim 22 in which the chloroplast transit peptide is from a plant EPSPS gene... .
The 4.1 kDa N-terminal transit peptide appears to target the nuclear encoded gene product through the chloroplast envelope into the chloroplast stroma.
The dimeric PSII supercomplex used for this study was isolated from spinach chloroplast thylakoid membranes.
It is clear therefore that there is an intimate relationship between the metabolic processes in the developing chloroplast and nuclear gene expression.
In addition, it has a single chloroplast, which makes it easy to produce a uniformly transformed culture.