Plastosome
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Plastosome is a noun meaning (obsolete) Any of various organelles found within a cell, especially a mitochondrion.
Meaning
(obsolete) Any of various organelles found within a cell, especially a mitochondrion.
Example Sentences
The plastosome itself sometimes survives the growth period as a unit, though often it does not.
The shape of the plastonema and its relation to the plastosome appear clearly in figures 1, 2, and 3.
These granules later (early spermatocytes) disappear from the nucleus simultaneously with the disappearance of the plastosome.
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.
Word Forms
- plastosomes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include plastide, plastonema, plastid, trophoplast, plastidule, plastidome.
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