- The
number of
chloroplasts per cell
varies from one, in some
unicellular algae, up to 100 in
plants like
Arabidopsis and wheat.
Chloroplasts are
highly dynamic—they...
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Notches indicate introns.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA), also
known as
plastid DNA (ptDNA) is the DNA
located in
chloroplasts,
which are
photosynthetic organelles...
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Chloroplasts contain several important membranes,
vital for
their function. Like mitochondria,
chloroplasts have a double-membrane envelope,
called the...
- to
Rickettsiales bacteria,
while chloroplasts are
thought to be
related to cyanobacteria. The idea that
chloroplasts were
originally independent organisms...
-
Chloroplast capture is an
evolutionary process through which inter-species
hybridization and
subsequent backcrosses yield a
plant with new
genetic combination...
- it
retains only the
chloroplasts, by
storing them
within its
extensive digestive system. It then
takes up the live
chloroplasts into its own gut cells...
- of the plant.
Proplastids and
young chloroplasts typically divide by
binary fission, but more
mature chloroplasts also have this capacity.
Plant proplastids...
-
Thylakoids are membrane-bound
compartments inside chloroplasts and cyanobacteria. They are the site of the light-dependent
reactions of photosynthesis...
-
takes place in
organelles called chloroplasts. A
typical plant cell
contains about 10 to 100
chloroplasts. The
chloroplast is
enclosed by a membrane. This...
-
evolutionary stage in the
permanent acquisition of
chloroplasts.
Mesodinium rubrum is a
ciliate that
steals chloroplasts from the
cryptomonad Geminigera cryophila...
