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The word chloroplast is derived from the Greek words chloros, which means green, and plast, which means form or entity. Chloroplasts are members of a class of organelles known as plastids.

A model chloroplast

Chloroplasts are one of the many different types of organelles in the cell. In general, they are considered to have originated as endosymbiotic cyanobacteria (previously known as blue-green algae).

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