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apicoplasts

apicoplasts is the plural of apicoplast.

Meaning of apicoplast

Noun

apicoplast (plural apicoplasts)

  1. 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

Questions about apicoplasts

What is apicoplasts the plural of?
Apicoplasts is the plural of apicoplast.

Words near apicoplasts in the dictionary

  1. apicomplexan
  2. apicomplexans
  3. apicopalatal
  4. apicoplast
  5. apicoplastic
  6. apicoplasts
  7. apicopostalveolar
  8. apicoposterior
  9. apicoprepalatal
  10. apicortin
  11. apicortins

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