How to Use chloroplast in a Sentence

chloroplast

noun

• The plants seemed to have simply ditched their entire chloroplast genome.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021
• The gene for the big protein resides inside the chloroplast, which is simple.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2017
• But the smaller protein is encoded in the DNA of the cell's nucleus and made outside the chloroplast.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2017
• In that scenario, chloroplast maintenance could fall to the wayside.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2021
• The pump transferred protons from the cytoplasm to the compartment between the extra membrane and the chloroplast.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2023
• Changes to the number and maturity of chloroplasts within a leaf, as well as to leaves' structures, cause the leaves to appear lighter in the spring and darker later on.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• These proteins, which number in their hundreds, are made in the cell’s nucleus, and transported into the chloroplast.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2012
• Several chloroplast-hoarding sea-slug species will live longer and grow larger when allowed to soak up sunlight.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2021
• In high tide, when less light reaches the alga, the crystals may capture some of the sunlight and pass it on to the surrounding chloroplasts for photosynthesis.
  — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2018
• But too much light is damaging, so in strong light conditions the chloroplasts weave and dodge to minimize exposure.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
• This green algae Spirogyra has one of the most fascinating chloroplast shapes of all algae – a helical shape, or spiral.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2021
• The chloroplasts inside these cells, which turn sunlight into energy through the process of photosynthesis, tend to absorb more blue and red wavelengths and less green light.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• Just as in plants on land, this process—photosynthesis—relies on green pigment molecules inside an organelle called the chloroplast.
  — Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
• What was once an independent microbe was now the chloroplast: the cellular structure, or organelle, that plant cells use to photosynthesize .
  — Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2012
• In fact, the entire 150-kilobase chloroplast genomes had been transferred intact, not as naked DNA fragments haphazardly recombined among other genes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2021
• Schramma's team found that chloroplasts can undergo a similar process.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
• The program will fund scientists to try to make synthetic chromosomes, the genetic building blocks of plants, and synthetic chloroplasts, which have their own separate genomes.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
• Previous evolutionary trees of plants built by scientists often used the genome of the chloroplast, the organelle that allows plants to perform photosynthesis.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• Indeed, these nudibranchs are a lovely bright green, and may in fact be partly solar-powered, though Matsuda notes that there’s still quite a bit of debate on whether the nudibranchs are able to actually draw energy from the chloroplasts.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2014
• Recognizing this process will let physicists study chloroplasts' complex dynamics as a familiar type of system, the researchers say.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
• The nanotube method is far more elegant and even managed to insert genes into chloroplasts, the organelles in plant cells responsible for photosynthesis.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2019
• Two possibilities stand out: chloroplasts and mitochondria, both organelles that float around inside plant cells.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
• After being swallowed by the slug, the algal cells continue to live in its digestive system, their chloroplasts photosynthesizing and producing energy, which is then used by the slug.
  — Helen Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• But in contrast to land plants, these green algae also have a biomolecular condensate called a pyrenoid within each chloroplast that has a high concentration of enzymes needed to convert carbon dioxide from the air into sugars for energy.
  — Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
• Some come from the bacteria that were incorporated as mitochondria and chloroplasts.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
• Unlike things like mitochondria and chloroplasts, however, the nitroplast is limited to a single lineage of algae.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2024
• When eukaryotic cells first absorbed the cyanobacteria that became chloroplast—a light-absorbing organelle—photosynthesis became a powerful driver of life on Earth.
  — Viviane Callier, Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2019
• This is the same scenario that produced mitochondria and chloroplasts: Both organelles were formerly free-living bacteria that became symbionts of larger cells and eventually moved in permanently.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2024
• Similar systems are used by mitochondria and chloroplasts.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Apr. 2024
• Similarly, plant cells probably acquired chloroplasts, which capture the energy of sunlight, from some early parasite or symbiont.
  — Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024