apicoplast

apicoplast

English

Noun

apicoplast (plural apicoplasts)

1. (microbiology) 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

Related terms

• apicoplastic

Translations

a relict, non-photosynthetic plastid found in most of the Apicomplexa

French: apicoplaste (fr) m Italian: apicoplasto m

Portuguese: apicoplasto m Spanish: apicoplasto m

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