apicoplasts

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A form of apicoplast — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of apicoplast
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