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As nouns the difference between terms and sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol

is that terms is while sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol is (biochemistry) a glycerophospholipid that, along with galactosyldiacylglycerol, is an important component of membranes of chloroplasts and related organelles and one of the most abundant lipids in photosynthetic tissues.

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    sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol

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    * sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol

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  • (biochemistry) A glycerophospholipid that, along with galactosyldiacylglycerol, is an important component of membranes of chloroplasts and related organelles and one of the most abundant lipids in photosynthetic tissues.
  • * 2001 , Bertram Fraser-Reid (ed.), Glycoscience , p. 2085:
    • Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol lipids have also been identified in phototrophic and a few other bacterial species.
  • * 2009 , Hajime Wada & Norio Murata (eds.), Lipids in Photosynthesis , p. 2:
    • There are four major glyceroplipid components in the thylakoid membranes, namely, monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG), digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG), sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol (SQDG) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG).

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    * SQDG (abbreviation) Long English words