apicoplast (English, noun)
expansion: apicoplast (plural apicoplasts)
Senses:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: 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
Forms:
form: apicoplasts
tags: plural