apicoplast
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apicoplast (plural apicoplasts)
- (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
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a relict, non-photosynthetic plastid found in most of the Apicomplexa
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