The results—cells harboring both nuclear and chloroplast markers—confirmed that exchange of large pieces of DNA, possibly entire chloroplasts, takes place but only at the immediate graft site.

From left, postdoctoral researcher Bidhan Chandra De, chemistry professor Angad Mehta and their colleagues found evidence suggesting that chloroplasts ... incorporated its DNA and functions ...

Endosymbiosis, a process where one organism engulfs another and integrates its DNA and functions instead ... plastids, including chloroplasts, which enable photosynthesis. A recent study published ...

Cytoplasm, ribosomes present; there are no mitochondria or chloroplasts. Genetic material DNA in a nucleus, plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. DNA is a single molecule ...