Study offers insight into chloroplast evolution

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Source: Photo by Fred Zwicky

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that the primary role of primitive chloroplasts may have been to produce chemical energy for the cell and only later shifted so that most or all of the energy they generated was used for carbon assimilation.

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