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[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's a eukariotic algea, does it also have cloroplasts?

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 year 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.