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Chloroplasts have two important functions: * they contain a green pigment called chlorophyll which absorbs light to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose during photosynthesis. * some of the glucose is used immediately by the plant for growth and producing macromolecules; the rest is stored as the insoluble carbohydrate starch until it's needed later. The starch is stored in grains, inside the chloroplasts.
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Why do only plant cells have chloroplasts?
Only plant cells contain chloroplasts because they are used to help make food for the plant. Chloroplasts are used in the photosynthesis process.
Do the stems of woody stem plants have chloroplasts?
Yes, because all green plants have chloroplasts.
An important mineral ion that is a component of chloroplasts and stabilizer of membranes and ribosomes is?
Magnesium
A plant's green color is due to the presence of which organelle?
Plants are green because they have green chloroplasts (organelles that carry out photosynthesis). But why are Chloroplasts green? Chloroplasts are green because they contain the green pigment chlorophyll in their thylakoid membranes. Chlorophyll is a pigment that absorbs red and blue light.
Do chloroplasts move in the same direction?
Chloroplasts are organelles found inside plant cells. They are confined within the cell they are located in.
Why is a structure important?
BEcause chloroplasts helps proteins go to the nucleus
Why is chloroplast a important structure?
BEcause chloroplasts helps proteins go to the nucleus
What is the importance of chloroplast to the cell?
Chloroplasts are important because if there were no chloroplasts, plants would not produce oxygen, sugars and starches which other animals use and eat.
Why are chloroplasts important to plants?
Chloroplasts absorb sunlight for photosynthesis.
Where are the chloroplasts in the onion cells?
There are no chloroplasts in bulb.Thats because they do not get sunlight.
What would happen to a plant if its chloroplasts stopped working?
Chloroplasts are doing photosynthesis. They will die if chloroplasts are not working.
Why do plant cells also need chloroplasts and mitochondria?
Chloroplasts are very important.They are responsible for photosynthesis.Mitochondria are important for respiration.
All chloroplast are plastid but not plastid are chloroplast?
All chloroplasts are plastids because chloroplasts are plastids containing chlorophyll. But, all plastids are not chloroplasts because only those plastid that contains chlorophyll are chloroplasts.
Why are a plant cell chloroplasts green?
Because they trap sunlight.
What is an important plant sugar made in the chloroplasts?
photosynthesis
Is there chloroplasts in animal cells?
There is NO chloroplasts in animal cells. There is only in plant cells because chloroplasts give plants there green color.
Would you expect to find chloroplasts in the cells of a root?
no,because root cells do not have chloroplasts.
