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  • Chloroplasts are found in the cells of plants that conduct photosynthesis. They absorb sunlight and use it along with water and carbon dioxide gas (CO2) to produce food for the plant.
  • Mouse umbilical cord
  • Mouse umbilical cord
  • Haemoglobin
  • Diatom siliceous skeleton, Melosira
  • Partners in crime - chloroplasts and mitochondria
  • Partners in crime - chloroplasts and mitochondria
  • Power Plant
  • Puppy and zonal placenta, canine
  • Feverfew stoma
  • Open stoma on an orchid leaf (Phalaenopsis sp.)
  • Open stoma on an orchid leaf (Phalaenopsis sp.)
  • Stoma and chloroplasts of maize leaf
  • Reduced oxygen affects human organs, conceptual artwork
  • Reduced oxygen affects human organs, conceptual artwork
  • Reduced oxygen affects human organs, conceptual artwork
  • Reduced oxygen affects human organs, conceptual artwork
  • Reduced oxygen affects human organs, conceptual artwork
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half