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    Plant and algal cells contain chloroplasts that allow them to harvest energy from sunlight through photosynthesis. During photosynthesis, chloroplasts absorb sunlight using pigments and use the energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen. Glucose is used by the cell and can be stored as carbohydrates or fats in plant tissues. The process is important because it allows plants and algae to produce their own food, unlike animals that must consume other organisms for energy.

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    Plant and algal cells contain chloroplasts that allow them to harvest energy from sunlight through photosynthesis. During photosynthesis, chloroplasts absorb sunlight using pigments and use the energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen. Glucose is used by the cell and can be stored as carbohydrates or fats in plant tissues. The process is important because it allows plants and algae to produce their own food, unlike animals that must consume other organisms for energy.

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    Plant and algal cells contain chloroplasts that allow them to harvest energy from sunlight through photosynthesis. During photosynthesis, chloroplasts absorb sunlight using pigments and use the energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen. Glucose is used by the cell and can be stored as carbohydrates or fats in plant tissues. The process is important because it allows plants and algae to produce their own food, unlike animals that must consume other organisms for energy.

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    Plant and algal cells contain chloroplasts that allow them to harvest energy from sunlight through photosynthesis. During photosynthesis, chloroplasts absorb sunlight using pigments and use the energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen. Glucose is used by the cell and can be stored as carbohydrates or fats in plant tissues. The process is important because it allows plants and algae to produce their own food, unlike animals that must consume other organisms for energy.

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    How Do Chloroplasts Capture Energy from the Sun?


    Plant cells and some algae contain an organelle called the chloroplast. The chloroplast allows plants to harvest energy from
    sunlight, a process known as photosynthesis. Specialized pigments in the chloroplast absorb sunlight and use this energy to
    combine carbon dioxide and water to make glucose and oxygen. The complete reaction is:

    ​ 6H​2​O ​
    6CO​2 + → ​C​6​H​12​O​6 +​ 6O​2​
    Raw Materials (Reactants) Products
    CO​2​ = carbon dioxide​ C​6​H​12​O​6​ = glucose
    H​2​O = water O​2​ = oxygen

    Plant cells can use this process to manufacture glucose, a simple sugar. Some of the glucose is used immediately for cellular
    respiration, where it is converted to a high energy compound called ATP. You might recall from studies of the cell, that the
    process of creating ATP occurs in the mitochondria. Glucose that is not used right away is packaged as carbohydrates or fats
    and then stored in the roots, seeds, and fruits.

    All autotrophs can make their own food in this way, unlike heterotrophs, which must consume food. When you eat a potato,
    you are eating the carbohydrates that the plant created from sunlight.

    Sun & Energy = yellow Carbon Dioxide = red Water = light blue
    Photosynthesis= green Respiration = purple Glucose = dark blue
    Storage Products= brown ATP = orange Oxygen = pink

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    1. What two types of cells contain chloroplasts? ___________________________________________
    2. Autotrophs make their own food using energy from __________________________________
    3. The food making process is called _______________________________
    4. What are the raw materials for photosynthesis? ____________________________
    5. What simple sugar is produced? ______________________________
    6. What gas is used in the process? ______________ What gas is released? ________________
    7. Where are most photosynthetic cells in plants found? _________________________
    8. What compound can be made from glucose and serves as long term energy storage? _____________________
    9. Compare the raw materials of photosynthesis to the products of respiration.

    10. How are these two processes (photosynthesis and respiration) related?

    The Structure of the Chloroplast

    Chloroplasts are double membrane organelles with a smooth outer membrane and an inner membrane that is folded into
    disc-shaped sacs called the thylakoid. Color and label the outer membrane light green . Color and label the inner
    membrane brown .

    Thylakoids contain chlorophyll and


    other pigments (red, orange, yellow,
    brown) and are found in stacks
    called granum (grana, plural.)

    Color and label the thylakoids dark


    green , then highlight the entire
    stack of granum with yellow .
    These stacks are connected to other
    stacks by channels called lamellae.
    Color and label the lamella orange.

    Grana are surrounded by a gel-like


    material called stroma. Color and label the stroma blue.

    11. How many membranes surround a chloroplast? _______________

    12. Thylakoids form stacks called ___________________________________

    13. Stacks of granum are connected to each other by ___________________________

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