chloroplast
Other forms: chloroplasts
The chloroplast is the place in a plant cell where photosynthesis happens. Your rose bushes have chloroplasts, but you don’t.
Chloroplast is the combination of two biological terms, plastid (an organelle in a plant cell), and chloros, which means green. If you’re reading about plant biology, you’ll probably recognize chloros in chlorophyll, which is one of the pigments important to photosynthesis, which takes place in chloroplasts.
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plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments; in plants that carry out photosynthesistype of:plastidany of various small particles in the cytoplasm of the cells of plants and some animals containing pigments or starch or oil or protein
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You can't learn by osmosis, so practice this list of essential terms related to cell biology. You'll master the difference between mitosis and meiosis, study cell structure, and review cellular processes like respiration, division, and photosynthesis.
You can't learn by osmosis, so practice this list of essential terms related to cell biology. You'll master the difference between mitosis and meiosis, study cell structure, and review cellular processes like respiration, division, and photosynthesis.