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It is both a pigment called chlorophyll and an organelle called a chloroplast that captures light energy and uses it to make food. When making the plant food (glucose) the chloroplast gives the plant a green color, especially in the leaves and stem.

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What is the green plant cell part that traps and use sunlight?

Chloroplasts are found in plants to capture light energy


What part of the cell traps sunlight for the plant to use?

The chloroplast organelle


What plant part traps the energy from sunlight?

The chlorophyll found in chloroplasts utilises the sun's energy for photosynthesis.


What does the green colour do in a plant?

The green pigment absorbs the sunlight as part of the photosynthesis process.


What is the part of a cell that traps sunlight energy?

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Which part of the pitcher plant absorbs sunlight?

The entire "pitcher" of the Pitcher plant contains chlorophyll is green and can photosynthesise


What is the chloroplast is it the green part of a plant that uses the energy from the sunlight?

a plastid containing chlorophyll found in plant cells. They are responsible for absorbing sunlight and performing the process of PHOTOSYNTHESIS. :-)


What plant part is not green?

The roots of a plant are not green. A part of a plant is green because it contains chlorophyll, which is used for photosynthesis. Since no light penetrates the ground to reach the roots, the roots need no chlorophyll, and so are brown instead of green.


What part of a plant collects energy from the sun?

Green part of the plant having chlorophyll traps energy


What cell part contains chlorophyll and a green pigment that traps energy from sunlight and gives plants their green color?

chloroplasts contains chlorophyll,which gives off green pigment to plants so they don't die.


Which part contains the green chemical that allows plant cells to use the sunlight energy?

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What part of the plant does photosynthesis occur in?

The Chloroplasts.the chloroplasts are organelles in a plant cell that take in sunlight.