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Chloroplast genome in plants-also known as a plastome-is a short, circular, double stranded DNA molecule of 83-292 kb in size. This haploid genome lacks recombination, and exhibits a uniparental inheritance which is predominantly maternal in angiosperms but paternal in gymnosperms.
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