Chloroplasts

01 "The Kitchen of the Cell"

Table of Contents
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What is a chloroplast and its function?

What is the structure of a chloroplast?

What are 5 interesting/fun facts about chloroplasts?

What is a
chloroplast and 03

its function?
 Chloroplast?
Organelles
Site of Photosynthesis
Contains chlorophyll
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 Function?
"The Kitchen of the cell"
To absorb sunlight
To provide food for plant
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What is the
structure of a 06

chloroplast?
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 Membrane Envelope

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 Membrane Envelope
Outer (1)
Inner (2)
Outer is
09 permeable; inner
is less permeable
 Stroma

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 Stroma
The fluid
11
within the
inner
chloroplast
membrane
 Granum

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 Granum
Contains the
membranes that
13 the light
reactions of
photosynthesis
take place on.
 Lamella

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 Lamella
Long
interconnecting
15
membranes
which link
different grana
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What are 5
interesting/fun
facts about
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chloroplasts?
1. Scientists
estimate that there
are around
500,000
chloroplasts in a 18

single square
millimeter of a
leaf.
 2. Chloroplasts are green for a light-
related reason.

19 Green light =
damaging
Other colours
absorbed
 3. Some chloroplasts
can actually move- for
example, that of
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elodea.
Cyclonic or cytoplasmic streaming
Heat, light, fluid content
 DNA, RNA,
Ribosomes
Replicate
themselves
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Mitochondria

4. They are actually semi-autonomous

organelles.
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5. The term chloroplast comes from two Greek words,

chloros and plastes. Chloros in Greek means “green”,
while plastes in Greek means “one who forms”.
 Not all chlorophyll molecules in a chloroplast are involved
Bonus fun in converting light energy to chemical energy
Usually biconvex or plano-convex, but can also be
facts: filamentous, spheroid, ovoid, saucer-shaped, discoid, or
club-like.

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