- 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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Chloroplasts contain several important membranes,
vital for
their function. Like mitochondria,
chloroplasts have a double-membrane envelope,
called the...
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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...
- to
Rickettsiales bacteria,
while chloroplasts are
thought to be
related to cyanobacteria. The idea that
chloroplasts were
originally independent organisms...
- of the plant.
Proplastids and
young chloroplasts typically divide by
binary fission, but more
mature chloroplasts also have this capacity.
Plant proplastids...
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Chloroplast capture is an
evolutionary process through which inter-species
hybridization and
subsequent backcrosses yield a
plant with new
genetic combination...
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proven by
British biochemist Robin Hill. He
demonstrated that
isolated chloroplasts would make
oxygen (O2) but not fix
carbon dioxide (CO2). This is evidence...
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takes place in
organelles called chloroplasts. A
typical plant cell
contains about 10 to 100
chloroplasts. The
chloroplast is
enclosed by a membrane. This...
- kDa,
typically localized in the
cytoplasm is also
found in the IMS of
chloroplasts. The
resulting hypothesis states that co-localization of Hsp70 is important...
- have
primary chloroplasts derived from
endosymbiont cyanobacteria.
Diatoms and
brown algae are
examples of
algae with
secondary chloroplasts derived from...
