How to Use chloroplast in a Sentence
chloroplast
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The plants seemed to have simply ditched their entire chloroplast genome.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021
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The gene for the big protein resides inside the chloroplast, which is simple.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2017
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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
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In that scenario, chloroplast maintenance could fall to the wayside.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2021
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The pump transferred protons from the cytoplasm to the compartment between the extra membrane and the chloroplast.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 July 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Schramma's team found that chloroplasts can undergo a similar process.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Some come from the bacteria that were incorporated as mitochondria and chloroplasts.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
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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
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Similarly, plant cells probably acquired chloroplasts, which capture the energy of sunlight, from some early parasite or symbiont.
—Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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That timing is similar to the origin of the photosynthetic cyanobacteria, which both continue to live independently and have been incorporated into plant cells as chloroplasts.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2024
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But photosynthesis, which occurs in chloroplasts, produces oxygen, and oxygen destroys nitrogenase.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
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Energy-producing mitochondria power all complex cells; chloroplasts, where photosynthesis takes place, make plant life possible.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 14 Nov. 2019
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In 1966, Margulis provided evidence that mitochondria, molecular machines that help cells produce energy, and chloroplasts, which help plant cells turn sunlight into sugar, originated from symbiotic bacteria.
—Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 4 June 2014
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