Chloroplasts
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Chloroplasts
kloros - green
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plastos - formed
Endosymbiosis Theory - Came from Prokaryotes
Only Found in Plant Cells & Some Protists – Algae
Reproduce through Cell Division
Organelle – Pigment Containing Plastid
Capture light energy to produce food for the cell.
Create their own food by making sugars & starches.
Main Function
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Photosynthesis
Converts carbon dioxide & water into glucose and oxygen.
CO2 + Water
Sugar + Oxygen
Chlorophyll - Pigments in thylakoids.
Traps sunlight and gives plants green color.
Generate ATP - Adenosine Triphosphate
Power transport across cell membranes and movement of cells.
CHLOROPLASTS
STRUCTURES
Inner & Outer
membrane
Thylakoids
Absorb &
Transport
Light capturing disc
shaped
photosynthetic
pigments
Sunlight & energy
100 +
Thylakoid
Membrane
Contains
Chlorophyll
Ribosome
Stroma
Metabolic
enzymes
Convert CO2
to
Carbohydrates
Grana
Granum
Stacked membranes
of thylakoids
DNA
GRANUM
FRESH WATER
ALGAE CHLOROPLASTS
LIVERWORT
CHLOROPLASTS
DISC SHAPED
CHLOROPLASTS
DISEASES
Tobacco Mosaic
Virus
Turnip Mosaic
Virus
DISEASES
Tomato Bushy Stunt Disease
The following structures can be found
in the chloroplast…..
a. thylakoid, DNA, crista, granum
b. granum, thylakoid, stroma, DNA
c. cellulose, grana, thylakoid, stroma
d. granum, golgi, stroma, DNA
During photosynthesis the sun’s energy is used
to convert carbon dioxide and water into…..
a. Water and Sugar
b. Chlorophyll
c. Oxygen
d. Sugar
e. Sugar and Oxygen