• Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 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

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      7 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.