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Also known as GO:0009536, plastids

thumb|Plant cells with visible chloroplasts

AI overview

A plastid is a type of structure found inside plant cells that plays a crucial role in storing and processing important materials like starches and pigments. Chloroplasts, which are the green structures you can see in plant cells, are a special kind of plastid that captures sunlight to create food energy for the plant.

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Research

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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • In land plants
  • Chloroplasts, proplastids, and differentiation
  • Plastomes and Chloroplast DNA/ RNA; plastid DNA and plastid nucleoids
  • In algae and protists
  • Inheritance
  • DNA damage and repair
  • Origin
  • Plastid development cycle
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|Plant cells with visible chloroplasts

A plastid is a membrane-bound organelle found in the cells of plants, algae, and some other eukaryotic organisms. Plastids are considered to be intracellular endosymbiotic cyanobacteria.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “plastid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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