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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
chloroplast , a complex, discrete green structure, or organelle, contained in the cytoplasm of plant cells. Chloroplasts are reponsible for the green color of almost all plants and are lacking only in plants that do not make their own food, such as fungi and nongreen parasitic or saprophytic higher plants. The chloroplast is generally flattened and lens-shaped and consists of a body, or stroma, in which are embedded from a few to as many as 50 submicroscopic bodies—the grana—made up of stacked, disklike plates. The chloroplast contains chlorophyll pigments, as well as yellow and orange... Read more
Chloroplast
Chloroplast Chloroplasts are the source of virtually all of the world's food and fuel and...stems and green parts of a fruit (for example, in an apple peel). Chloroplasts are approximately 4 to 6 micrometers in diameter and shaped like... Read more
Chloroplasts
Chloroplasts The chloroplast is a membrane-bound organelle within a cell that conducts photosynthesis. From the molecular perspective, the chloroplast is very large and contains millions of protein molecules along with... Read more

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