Photosynthetic vs Apicoplast - What's the difference?
photosynthetic | apicoplast |
Of, relating to, or employing photosynthesis.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= 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.
As an adjective photosynthetic
is of, relating to, or employing photosynthesis.As a noun apicoplast is
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.photosynthetic
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(en adjective)Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: