• phdepressed
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    8 months ago

    Not in the paper data at least. It does have plastids which I had to look up (been a while since gen bio). Plastids are similar to chloroplasts. So triple endosymbiont actually. Again if data holds to further scrutiny.

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      8 months ago

      I think plastid is the generic term for that organelle family and chloroplasts are plastids specialized for photosynthesis.
      So they probably don’t want to state the plastids have a function they havent confirmed or something like that

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        8 months ago

        You are correct about the definitions but I’d imagine chloroplasts have some relatively standard assays which would have been tried, though this isn’t really my area of expertise.