How to Use chloroplast in a Sentence

chloroplast

noun
  • How might a chloroplast elbow its way through the crowd?
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • The plants seemed to have simply ditched their entire chloroplast genome.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The gene for the big protein resides inside the chloroplast, which is simple.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2017
  • In that scenario, chloroplast maintenance could fall to the wayside.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Trees are made out of thin air, as sunlight energizes special cells in their leaves called chloroplasts.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
  • And while plants have to remain mostly stationary, chloroplasts do not.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • When light conditions are constant, the cell is stable and firm, and chloroplasts remain in place.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • Several chloroplast-hoarding sea-slug species will live longer and grow larger when allowed to soak up sunlight.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The chloroplasts were sourced from red algae, while the animal cells were cultured from hamsters.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Previous attempts at transplanting a chloroplast into a foreign cell had worked for just a few hours.
    — Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The chloroplasts are discs that can come in various sizes and quantities in different cells.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • Differences in the size, shape, or density of chloroplasts in the cell could steer the system away from a glassy transition.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • Schramma's team found that chloroplasts can undergo a similar process.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Recently, Schramma and Jalaal have obsessed over a mystery of chloroplast physics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • These proteins, which number in their hundreds, are made in the cell’s nucleus, and transported into the chloroplast.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2012
  • That means their chloroplasts are, too (that’s the part that conducts photosynthesis and contains the pigments that make leaves green).
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The team isolated the chloroplasts from algal cells using a centrifuge and gentle stirring.
    — Saugat Bolakhe, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2025
  • But too much light is damaging, so in strong light conditions the chloroplasts weave and dodge to minimize exposure.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Seagrasses cram the emerald chloroplasts that do the work of photosynthesis into the very top layer of the leaf.
    — David George Haskell, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Hangarter had studied these mechanics, as well as the geometry of chloroplasts, in dozens of different plant species.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • Just as in plants on land, this process—photosynthesis—relies on green pigment molecules inside an organelle called the chloroplast.
    — Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Changes to the number and maturity of chloroplasts within a leaf, as well as to leaves' structures, cause the leaves to appear lighter in the spring and darker later on.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Caught between a vacuole and a hard place, the chloroplasts, nucleus, and other organelles are smushed against the plant cell’s rigid rectangular walls.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • But the smaller protein is encoded in the DNA of the cell's nucleus and made outside the chloroplast.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2017
  • This green algae Spirogyra has one of the most fascinating chloroplast shapes of all algae – a helical shape, or spiral.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2021
  • However, inserting these chloroplasts into animal cells is a lot easier said that done.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Both of them turn out to be a fragment of the ATP synthase found in chloroplasts—basically a piece of one of the plant’s own proteins.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
  • In high tide, when less light reaches the alga, the crystals may capture some of the sunlight and pass it on to the surrounding chloroplasts for photosynthesis.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Ultra-small chloroplasts could be weak collectors of light and carbon dioxide, or they may be crammed too tightly, like the contents of a large home stuffed into a studio apartment.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • Genetic testing shows that chloroplasts aren’t your typical organelles.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024

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