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Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll is a green pigment found in almost all plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. Its name is derived from the Greek words χλωρος, chloros and φύλλον, phyllon . Chlorophyll is an extremely important biomolecule, critical in photosynthesis, which allows plants to obtain energy from light

Chloroplast
Chloroplasts are organelles found in plant cells and other eukaryotic organisms that conduct photosynthesis. Chloroplasts capture light energy to conserve free energy in the form of ATP and reduce NADP to NADPH through a complex set of processes called photosynthesis.Chloroplasts are green because they contain the chlorophyll pigment

Chloropropane
Chloropropane may refer to:* n-Propyl chloride * Isopropyl chloride

Chlorous acid
Chlorous acid is an inorganic compound with the formula HClO2. It is a weak acid. Chlorine has oxidation state +3 in this acid. The pure substance is unstable, disproportionating to hypochlorous acid and chloric acid :Although the acid is difficult to obtain in pure substance, the conjugate base, chlorite, derived from this acid are

Choanocyte
Choanocytes are cells that line the interior of Asconoid, syconoid and leuconoid body type sponges that contain a central flagellum surrounded by a collar of microvilli which are connected by a thin membrane. It is the closest family member to the free-living ancestor called choanoflagellate

CHOC
CHOC may mean:* Canadian House of Commons* Children's Hospital of Orange County , California, USA* Chapel Allerton Orthopaedic Centre at Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, England* Chocolate agar* The Cambridge History of China

Chock (disambiguation)
Chock may refer to:* Chock Devices for preventing movement:* Chock * Chock , anchor* Chock, component of a sailing block- See also :* Choc * Chok * "Chocky", short story

Chock (wheel)
Wheel chocks are wedges of sturdy material placed behind a vehicle's wheels to prevent accidental movement. Chocks are placed for safety in addition to setting the brakes. The bottom surface is sometimes coated in rubber to enhance grip with the ground. For ease of removal, a rope may be tied to the chock or a set of two chocks

Chocolat (1988 film)
Chocolat is a 1988 film directed by Claire Denis, about a French family that lives in colonial Cameroon. Marc and Aimée Dalens are the parents of France , a young girl who befriends Protée , a Cameroon native who is the family's household servant

Chocolat (2000 soundtrack)
Chocolat is the soundtrack, on the Sony Classical label, of the 2000 Academy Award-nominated film Chocolat starring Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Dame Judi Dench, Alfred Molina and Carrie-Anne Moss

Chocolat (disambiguation)
Chocolat is a 1999 novel by Joanne Harris.Chocolat may also refer to:* Chocolat , an adaptation of the novel, about a woman who opens a chocolaterie** Chocolat

Chocolat (Kaya Single)
is the fifth single and major label debut of Kaya, released on April 23, 2008.The title track, "Chocolat," is composed by Hora

Chocolat (manhwa)
Chocolat is a manhwa written by Shin Ji-sang and illustrated by Geo. It is published by Sigongsa and distributed in the United States by Yen Press.-Plot:

Chocolat (singer)
is a Japanese singer from the greater Tokyo area in Japan. Chocolat debuted in 1997 on Epic Records with her first single Chocolat a la mode. Chocolat is a twin, her younger sister heaco is a singer as well. In 1998 Chocolat married musician Akito Katayose from the band GREAT3 in Maui, Hawaii which subsequently became her favorite place

Chocolate
Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC

Chocolate (2001 film)
Chocolate is a 2001 Tamil film directed by A. Venkatesh featuring Prashanth and Jaya Re in the lead roles. Livingston, Suhasini, Mumtaj and Nagendra Prasad play supporting roles, while the film's score and soundtrack are composed by Deva.- Plot :

Chocolate (2007 film)
Chocolate is a Malayalam movie released in 2007, directed by Shafi. This is a campus story entertainer. Main actors are Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Roma, Samvrutha Sunil, and Remya Nabeeshan. Music by Alex Paul and lyrics by Vayalar Sarath Chandra Varma and Singers are M.G

Chocolate (2008 film)
Chocolate , also known as Zen, Warrior Within, is a 2008 Thai martial arts film starring Yanin "Jeeja" Vismistananda in her debut film performance. It is directed by Prachya Pinkaew, with martial arts choreography by Panna Rittikrai

Chocolate (band)
Chocolate was a Uruguayan band from Montevideo, specializing in cumbia music. They released 3 studio albums, & at their peak, became a huge success in South America, even touring the USA in 2001

Chocolate (disambiguation)
Chocolate is a delicious foodstuff.Chocolate may also refer to:-Geography:* Chocolate Hills, Bohol, Philippines* Chocolate Mountains, California, United States* Chocolate Mountains , United States-Music:

Chocolate (Hindi film)
Chocolate is a 2005 Bollywood film starring Anil Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Emraan Hashmi, Irrfan Khan, Tanushree Dutta and Sushma Reddy in the lead roles. It is a thriller and most part of the film was shot in London

Choctaw
The Choctaw are a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States

Chod
Chod may refer to:* Chod, a slang word originating from Birmingham, UK describing a young person unable to perform simple tasks no matter how many times they are shown

Chodes
Chodes is a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. As of 2007, Chodes had a population of 152.-References:

Choice
Choice consists of the mental process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them. While a choice can be made between imagined options , often a choice is made between real options, and followed by the corresponding action

Choice (artist)
Kim Davis, better known by her stage name of MC Choice, is an American female rap artist from San Antonio, Texas, but moved to Houston, Texas. She is best known for her album The Big Payback in 1990. She was signed to the label Rap A Lot Records

Choice (credit card)
Choice was a credit card test marketed by Citibank in the United States, announced in 1977 and first issued in 1978. It was one of the first cards to offer a cash-refund program and no annual fee. Choice was intended to create a rival to Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, but proved unsuccessful, and was withdrawn in 1987

Choices (song)
"Choices" is a country music song written by Mike Curtis and Billy Yates and Rob Lyons, first recorded by Yates on his 1997 self-titled album for Almo Sounds. It was later covered by George Jones, who released as the first single from his album The Cold Hard Truth on May 8, 1999, and it peaked at #29 on the Billboard country charts. A video was also made for this song

Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus

Choir (city)
Choir is a city in Mongolia. It is the capital of Govisümber Province, in the east-central part of the country. Choir is a center of the Sümber sum of Govisümber Province.- Population :

Choir (disambiguation)
- Choir or quire :* Choir, an ensemble of singers* Choir , the area between the nave and sanctuary in a church or cathedral* One of the divisions of a Pipe organ

Choisies
-References:*

Choke
Choke may refer to:* Choking, obstruction of airflow into the lungs** Choke , a condition in horses in which the esophagus is blocked** Choking game, a schoolyard game involving deprivation of oxygen to the brain

Choke (film)
Choke is a 2008 American black comedy film directed by Clark Gregg. The film stars Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston. Production took place in New Jersey in 2007. It premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was purchased by Fox Searchlight Pictures for distribution

Choke (firearms)
In firearms, a choke is a tapered constriction of the gun barrel's bore at the muzzle end, almost always used with shotguns. The purpose is to decrease the spread of the shot in order to gain better range and accuracy.

Choke (Kiss it Goodbye EP)
Choke is the final release by Hardcore band Kiss It Goodbye. The band recorded this material initially in 1998 for an EP that was to be released by Sub Pop Records but it was never released by the label as Tim Singer soon decided to leave the band effectively dissolving it

Choke (song)
"Choke" is Sepultura's tenth official single, and the first of three to be taken from the album Against, released in 1998. This is the band's first single with Derrick Green on vocals. It is still played in concerts. The video for the single was filmed at Green's first concert with the band, and can be found on the DVD Live In São Paulo

Choker
A choker is a close-fitting necklace, worn high on the neck. This type of jewellery can consist of one or more bands circling the neck. Chokers can be made of a variety of materials, including velvet, plastic, beads, metal, and leather. They are often adorned in a variety of ways, including with sequins, studs, a pendant, or a cameo

Choko (game)
Choko is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Gambia Valley, West Africa. It is played specifically by the Mandinka and Fula tribes. It is related to Yote.-Equipment:5 x 5 holes set in the ground or board. Each player has 12 pieces

Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting. Transmission occurs primarily by drinking or eating water or food that has been contaminated by the diarrhea of an infected person or the feces of an infected but asymptomatic person

Cholesterol
Cholesterol is a complex isoprenoid. Specifically, it is a waxy steroid of fat that is produced in the liver or intestines. It is used to produce hormones and cell membranes and is transported in the blood plasma of all mammals. It is an essential structural component of mammalian cell membranes and is required to establish proper membrane permeability and fluidity

Cholic acid
Cholic acid is a bile acid, a white crystalline substance insoluble in water , with a melting point of 200-201 °C. Salts of cholic acid are called cholates. Cholic acid, along with chenodeoxycholic acid, is one of two major bile acids produced by the liver where it is synthesized from cholesterol

Choline
Choline is a water-soluble essential nutrient. It is usually grouped within the B-complex vitamins. Choline generally refers to the various quaternary ammonium salts containing the N,N,N-trimethylethanolammonium cation.

Chomba
Chomba is a village under the Bamenda municipality in Cameroon. The village is located six km outside of Bamenda town. Before the 1960s, no motorable road linked the village to Bamenda town. The main road that links the village to the town was constructed manually by the villagers themselves. It was until the late 1970s/early 1980s that motor vehicles could reach the village

Chomp
Chomp is a 2-player game of strategy played on a rectangular "chocolate bar" made up of smaller square blocks . The players take it in turns to choose one block and "eat it" , together with those that are below it and to its right

Chomp (chocolate bar)
Chomp is a brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by Cadbury, popular in Australia and the United Kingdom.There are different versions of the bar available in each location. The Australian Chomp consists of a layer of wafer and caramel, coated in milk chocolate. The Australian chomp is also longer and thinner than the UK version, and comes in a 30g size

Chomp (video game)
Chomp is an arcade-style game closely patterned after Pac-Man for the Microsoft Windows environment. The game was created by Jerry J. Shekhel, Copyright 1991 Neolithic Software, Inc.

Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fishes are jawed fish with paired fins, paired nares, scales, two-chambered hearts, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone

Chondrite
Chondrites are stony meteorites that have not been modified due to melting or differentiation of the parent body. They formed when various types of dust and small grains that were present in the early solar system accreted to form primitive asteroids

Chondrus
Chondrus is a genus of red alga whose most famous species is C. crispus.

Chong
Chong can refer to:*The Chong language of Thailand and Cambodia*An alternative name for the Limbu people of eastern Nepal, Bhutan, and northeast IndiaTransliterations of a number of Chinese and Korean surnames:*Chung

Choo
-People:* Choo Byung-jik, 13th South Korean Minister for Construction* Choo Choo Coleman, a baseball player* Choo Freeman , a baseball player* Choo Han Teck, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore

Chooks (disambiguation)
Chooks can refer to:* Chicken, the animal, or* Chicken , the food, or* Chooks, a Western Australian fast food chain.

Chooser
Chooser can refer to:* Choosing, to select freely and after consideration.* A user interface on a computer that allows the user to choose items from large collections of data.** Apple Chooser, an application for Macintosh systems.

Chop
Chop, CHOP, Chops, or CHOPS may refer to:-Music:*Embouchure, in music, a synonym for chops*CHOPS, Asian-American hip-hop producer, rapper and member of rap group Mountain Brothers*Chops , 2006

CHOP
CHOP is the acronym for a chemotherapy regimen used in the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. CHOP consists of:* Cyclophosphamide, an alkylating agent which damages DNA by binding to it and causing cross-links

Chop (fiberglass)
A chop is a form of fiberglass consisting of short 6-8 inch lengths of glass that is shot out of a pneumatic gun with resin in to a mold. This method is used often when one side of the finished product is not seen, or when large quantities of a product must be made cheaply and quickly without regards to strength

Chop (furniture)
A chop is a signature or identifying mark made by a furniture or cabinet maker to identify his work. In the 18th and 19th centuries, cabinet makers furniture makers were allowed to use their own individual chop to identify their work only when they had qualified as a Master Cabinetmaker

Chop Chop (Tobacco)
Chop chop, also known as loose tobacco, is an Australian term for untaxed, cheap, illegal tobacco, such as that which is home grown. "Chop chop" avoids heavy excise and taxation levies and can be much cheaper than the legal product

Chop shop
In motor vehicle theft, a chop shop is a location or business which disassembles stolen automobiles for the purpose of selling them as parts. It may also be used to refer to a location or business that is involved with the selling of stolen or fraudulent goods in general, an example of the latter being a brokerage that sells non-existent equities

Chop Shop
Chop Shop a.k.a. Scott Konzelmann, is a noise musician who has released recordings on Pure, RRRecords, Banned Production, V2_Archief and Generator Sound Art.

Chop Shop (film)
Chop Shop is a 2007 American drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Ramin Bahrani. The film tells the story of a twelve-year-old street orphan living and working in Willets Point, an area in Queens, New York filled with automobile repair shops, scrapyards and garbage dumps.Chop Shop premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:Chop Shop tells the story of

Chop suey
Chop suey is a Chinese dish consisting of meat and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage, and celery and bound in a starch-thickened sauce

Chop Suey (painting)
Chop Suey is a painting by Edward Hopper which portrays two women in conversation at a restaurant. According to some art scholars, one "striking detail of Chop Suey is that its female subject faces her doppelgänger." Others have pointed out it would not be so unusual for two women to be wearing similar hats, and that it is presumptuous to claim doppelgängers when one of

Chop-Chop
"Chop-Chop" is Killing Joke's second single from their third studio album, Revelations. It released under E'G Records as a 7" single. The B-side, "Good Samaritan", was also off Revelations. This single, unlike "Empire Song", did not chart.

Chopawamsic
Chopawamsic Island is the only island in the Potomac River within the territorial boundaries of the Commonwealth of Virginia.- Introduction :

Chopped
Chopped can have the following meanings:* Chopped and screwed, a technique of remixing hip hop music* Chopped , a cooking reality television series which first aired in January 2009

Chopper
Chopper may refer to:* Helicopter* AK-47 as used in street slang/rap lyrics. Prolific in New Orleans rap, where the city is known as "Chopper City"* Attacking Chopper, the table tennis style* Thompson submachine gun