2. Adjective. Containing chloroplasts ¹
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Definition of Chloroplastic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chloroplastic
Literary usage of Chloroplastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Biology for Students in General, Medical and Technical Courses by William Martin Smallwood (1918)
"This is the peculiar relation that exists between the hydra and the greenish and
yellowish chloroplastic corpuscles. These chloroplastic bodies are minute ..."
2. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1910)
"And the starch in the chloroplasts might be of direct benefit in increasing the
chloroplastic surface and in refracting and reflecting the light so that ..."
3. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1916)
"And the starch in the chloroplasts might be of direct benefit in increasing the
chloroplastic surface and in refracting and reflecting the light so that ..."
4. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"... of brown seaweeds and other chloroplastic pigments which are soluble in water
may also be proteid in nature1. SECTION 54. ..."
5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The experimental records show, that according to the concentration of the ether
by centrifugal force, the chloroplastic band of etherized spirogyra is more ..."
6. Gene Expression in Field Crops: Bibliography January 1991-November 1992 edited by Janet Saunders, Robert D. Warmbrodt (1995)
"In tobacco leaves, the 6-kb Fd-GOGAT mRNA is about 50-fold less abundant than
chloroplastic glutamine synthetase (EC 63.12) mRNA. ..."
7. Biotechnology of Algae: A Bibliography by Virginia Stone (1994)
"For organellar genomes, chloroplastic and mitochondrial proteins are encoded
mainly with codons ending in A or U. In most cyanobacteria and the nuclei of ..."