Chloroplasts in a sentence

All secondary chloroplasts come from green and red algae —no secondary chloroplasts from glaucophytes have been observed, probably because glaucophytes are relatively rare in nature, making them less likely to have been taken up by another eukaryote.

A remnant of the outer plastid dividing ring remains floating between the two daughter chloroplasts, and a remnant of the dynamin ring remains attached to one of the daughter chloroplasts.

Exposure to white light can stimulate these chloroplasts to divide and reduce the population of dumbbell-shaped chloroplasts.

In this light micrograph of some moss chloroplasts, some dumbbell-shaped chloroplasts can be seen dividing.

Shaded chloroplasts contain larger and more grana with more thylakoid membrane area than chloroplasts exposed to bright light, which have smaller and fewer grana and less thylakoid area.

Sorting of proteins to chloroplasts The preprotein for chloroplasts may contain a stromal import sequence or a stromal and thylakoid targeting sequence.

Symbiosis and the origin of chloroplasts Plant cells with visible chloroplasts (from a moss, Plagiomnium affine Several groups of animals have formed symbiotic relationships with photosynthetic algae.

These proplastids differentiate into chloroplasts, which divide to create the 30–70 chloroplasts found in a mature photosynthetic plant cell.

Chloroplasts are the principal cell structures that house the photosynthetic apparatus converting light energy into the chemical energy that fuels plant growth.

The dedicated programme, dubbed Synthetic Plants, aims to develop synthetic chromosomes and chloroplasts that are viable in a living plant.

The researchers noted that cells with chloroplasts showed improved growth, possibly due to an additional energy source within the cells.

A common consumer complaint is "Omega-3 eggs can sometimes have a fishy taste if the hens are fed marine oils". citation Meat Omega 3 fatty acids are formed in the chloroplasts of green leaves and algae.

A cross section of a leaf, showing chloroplasts in its mesophyll cells.

An important feature of these chloroplasts is that their chloroplast DNA is highly reduced and fragmented into many small circles.

Another function of a central vacuole is that it pushes all contents of the cell's cytoplasm against the cellular membrane, and thus keeps the chloroplasts closer to light.

As a result, chloroplasts in C 4 mesophyll cells and bundle sheath cells are specialized for each stage of photosynthesis.

As in plants, only the female passes chloroplasts on to the offspring.

A typical chlorenchyma cell of a land plant contains about 10 to 100 chloroplasts.

Because the job of bundle sheath chloroplasts is to carry out the Calvin cycle and make sugar, they often contain large starch grains.

Both the chloroplast and cyanobacterium depicted are idealized versions (the chloroplast is that of a higher plant )—a lot of diversity exists among chloroplasts and cyanobacteria.