Meaning of plastosome | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of various organelles found within a cell, especially a mitochondrion.

obsolete

Examples

“The plastosome itself sometimes survives the growth period as a unit, though often it does not.”

“Just as a nucleus has always for its genesis a division of a mother-nucleus, so have⟳ the plastosomes for their origin a division of a mother-plastosome.”

“These granules later (early spermatocytes) disappear⟳ from the nucleus simultaneously with the disappearance of the plastosome.”

“The shape⟳ of the plastonema and its relation to the plastosome appear⟳ clearly in figures 1, 2, and 3.”

“The proplastid of I. howellii is a flattened structure⟳ that is differentiated into a plastonema and a plastosome. Lamellae and starch granules appear⟳ first in the plastonema and later in the plastosome.”

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