dictionary help| microbody --> peroxisome | medical dictionary |
<cell biology> Organelle containing peroxidase and catalase, sometimes as a large crystal. A site of oxygen utilisation, but not of ATP synthesis. In plants, associated with chloroplasts in photorespiration and considered to be part of a larger group of organelles, the microbodies.
Origin: Gr. Soma = body
(11 Mar 2008)
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