Membrane vs Apicoplast - What's the difference?
membrane | apicoplast |
A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal).
A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.
A flexible or semi-flexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.
A relict, non-photosynthetic plastid found in most of the Apicomplexa , proposed to have evolved via secondary endosymbiosis and surrounded by four membranes within the outermost part of the endomembrane system.
