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Chloroplasts
Description
Chloroplasts (Greek chloros: green; plastes: the one who forms) are small structures within the cells that conduct photosynthesis. They are a type of organelle called plastid present in plant cells (algae, aquatic and terrestrial plants) that characterizes for having two membranes and a high concentration of the pigment Chlorophyll. Like mitochondria, they originated through the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacteria by an early eukaryotic cell and they have their own DNA which replicates during cell division. In addition to photosynthesis, they also carry out other metabolic function within the plant cells such as fatty acid synthesis or amino acid synthesis.
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