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chlo·ro·plast
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granum
(in prescriptions) a grain. -
plastid
a small, double-membraned organelle of plant cells and certain protists, occurring in several varieties, as the chloroplast, and containing ribosomes, prokaryotic DNA, and, often, pigment. -
prochloron
any spherical, photosynthetic, prokaryotic microorganism of the genus Prochloron, occurring in subtropical and tropical habitats in symbiosis with various invertebrates, especially marine chordates, proposed as ancestral to the chloroplast of green algae and plants. -
quantasome
any of numerous particles in a chloroplast, part of the thylakoid and functioning in photosynthesis. -
stroma
Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell. -
thylakoid
a flattened sac or vesicle lined with a pigmented membrane that is the site of photosynthesis, in plants and algae occurring in interconnected stacks constituting a granum of the chloroplast, and in other photosynthesizing organisms occurring either singly or as part of the cell membrane or other structure.