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chlorosis

[klaw-roh-sis, kloh-] / klɔˈroʊ sɪs, kloʊ- /


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Once again, Rubisco gathered into dense compartments inside the chloroplasts.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

According to Dr. Shapiguzov, "to our knowledge, this is the first evidence that mitochondria influence chloroplasts through intracellular oxygen exchange."

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

Because the number of genes -- and thus how many copies of them there are -- inside the chloroplasts and mitochondria is manageable, no such miscorrections tend to occur there.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2024

As they put the new evolutionary tree together, they found that it confirmed many of the relationships suggested by trees built from chloroplasts.

From New York Times • May 11, 2024

It has recently been reported that the nucleic acid of chloroplasts is, in fact, homologous with that of certain photosynthetic microorganisms.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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