chloroplast

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• In that case, these outer cells should be equipped with green chloroplasts, the organs used for photosynthesis—after all, this is where the most sunlight falls.

• These animals can take the green sunlight-trapping energy factories called chloroplasts from algae.

• The plants seemed to have simply ditched their entire chloroplast genome.

• What might help Elysia slugs manage such extreme regrowth is their ability to steal the tiny green sunlight-trapping energy factories called chloroplasts from plants, the researchers muse.

• Yusa, however, has linked the looted chloroplasts to such consequential matters as improved reproduction.

• In each assimilating cell there is usually a single large chloroplast.

• The large chloroplast in each half is composed of six longitudinal plates, united at the axis of the cell.