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chloroplast
1. The microscopic body within the cell which contains chlorophyll.
2. A small oval green bit of protoplasm that contains chlorophyll and is the location of photosynthesis.While plant cells contain numerous chloroplasts, algal cells often have just one which consists of interconnected stacks of disk-shaped membranes in fluid, surrounded by a double membrane.

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