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chloroplast
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chloroplast /chlo·ro·plast/ (-plast) any of the chlorophyll-bearing bodies of plant cells.


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Moreover, if today's Alaskan white spruce trees were descended solely from those in distant forests, the genetic variations found in their chloroplasts would be a subset of the genetic diversity found in trees elsewhere.
Northern refuge: white spruce survived last ice age in Alaska by Perkins, S. / Science News
With this glyphosate-insensitive target site protein in the chloroplasts, glyphosate does not inhibit the normal synthesis of aromatic amino acids, and the plant is "ready" to resist.
The goods on glyphosate by Henderson, Pam / Farm Journal
Chloroplasts (the little factories in plant cells that use sunlight to produce energy) have their own small sets of genes.
DR. STRANGELUNCH by Bailey, Ronald / Reason
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