Chloroplast- Emily Hutchby

Chloroplast 

By: Emily Hutchby 
Main Ideas
- They are the food producers of the cell
- Only found in plant cells (and some protists)
- They use the process called photosynthesis to make food
- They have many different parts such as the outer/inner membranes, the stroma, and thylakoid, etc.

Chloroplasts are a very important part of the plant cell. But you may ask what does the chloroplast do? Well chloroplasts make food for the cell. They do that using the process called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is process of taking energy from the sun and making sugars. The sugars are made when the light hits the chloroplasts and chlorophyll and converts the light energy into chemical energy, that can be found in compounds like ATP and NADPH. Although they seem like a small part of the cell, they are actually very very important. That is because if you don't have chloroplasts to make sugars there would be no way for the cell/plant to get food, and as we know, plants are a very important part of the environment. If we have no plants we have no oxygen and if we have no oxygen we would not survive.

Citations:
http://www.biology4kids.com/files/cell_chloroplast.html
http://awhitebiology.weebly.com/chloroplasts.html