| 单词 | chloroplast |
| 释义 | chloroplast (once / 187609 pages) n The chloroplast is the place in a plant cell where photosynthesis happens. Your rose bushes have chloroplasts, but you don’t. Chloroplast is the combination of two biological terms, plastid (an organelle in a plant cell), and chloros, which means green. If you’re reading about plant biology, you’ll probably recognize chloros in chlorophyll, which is one of the pigments important to photosynthesis, which takes place in chloroplasts. WORD FAMILYchloroplast: chloroplasts USAGE EXAMPLESInside the palisade cells, in structures called chloroplasts, most of the leaf’s business of photosynthesis is carried on using the familiar green pigment called chlorophyll. New York Times(Nov 21, 2016) Plants rely on organelles called chloroplasts for photosynthesis. Nature(Oct 25, 2016) He did this by adding to its chloroplasts 12 genes for enzymes that govern the biochemical pathway which produces the drug. Economist(Oct 20, 2016) n plastid containing chlorophyll and other pigments; in plants that carry out photosynthesis Hyper plastid any of various small particles in the cytoplasm of the cells of plants and some animals containing pigments or starch or oil or protein |
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