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Definition of Chloroplasts
1. chloroplast [n] - See also: chloroplast
Medical Definition of Chloroplasts
1. Plant cell inclusion bodies that contain chlorophyll. They occur in cells of leaves and young stems. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chloroplasts
Literary usage of Chloroplasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Bine-Green Algae as Symbionts One group of living procaryotes is biochemically
and structurally (36) similar to the chloroplasts of certain eucaryotes. ..."
2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"The chloroplasts. — The synthesis of carbohydrates is associated with the green
... chloroplasts: 753, a cell from a moss leaf, showing chloroplasts in ..."
3. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"the external walls are always free of chloroplasts. This night position is not
found in all plants ; in many shade plants and aquatics all the chloroplasts ..."
4. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1907)
"In Spirogyra each cell has one to few chloroplasts each in the form of a ...
In these as well as in the higher plants the chloroplasts lie embedded in the ..."
5. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"Baur's answer to the first question rests on the fact that the chloroplasts have
a heredity independent of the cells in which they live. ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"chloroplasts after exposure to light generally contain starch but in some plants
this ... Plastids- a, chloroplasts: i Vaucheria, wiih oil globules; ..."
7. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"Starch grains formed in the chloroplasts.—During carbon conversion the starch
formed is deposited generally in small grains within the green chloroplast in ..."
8. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1900)
"THK PALISADE TISSUE In the Mosses the chloroplasts are found throughout the ...
When the leaves are dorsiventral in structure, the chloroplasts are more ..."
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