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chloroplast /chlo·ro·plast/ (-plast) any of the chlorophyll-bearing bodies of plant cells. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. Chloroplasts (the little factories in plant cells that use sunlight to produce energy) have their own small sets of genes. |
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