Vote Me, Chloroplast!
Why should you vote for me?
- I am essential to all life!
- I create food for you and I using a process called PHOTOSYNTHESIS. This process is only present in me!
- A by-product of photosynthesis is OXYGEN. We all know how important that is right?
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| Photosynthesis |
- I am the source of colour in the leaves of plants and trees.
- Without me, all living things that depend on food created by me would CEASE to exist, including humans. All ecosystems would be DESTROYED.
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| That green pigment in the grass is me. As you can see without me all ecosystems would corrupt. |
What is my purpose in a Cell?
- I am present in plant cells, but sugars created by me are PRESENT IN ALL CELLS.
- I may be also be present in some PROTISTS.
- I create PHOTOSYNTHESIS in the presence of water, sunlight and carbon dioxide gas, which results in sugars (food).
- Within me contain TWO MEMBRANES that protect my inner parts.
- I contain a STROMA which is the area inside the me where chemical reactions occur, resulting in starches.
- I also include THYLAKOID. These important structures have CHLOROPHYLL molecules on their surfaces, where sunlight is transformed into sugars.
- A stack of thylakoid is called a GRANUM.
- Every granum is connected by STROMAL LAMELLAE. This acts my skeleton.
In conclusion, why vote for anyone else? Obviously I'm the most important organelle in our whole world! So go on, vote me, Chloroplasts, king of the organelles!
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Information reference: "Biology4Kids.com: Cell Structure: Chloroplasts." Rader's BIOLOGY 4 KIDS.COM - Biology basics for everyone!. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Oct. 2013. <http://www.biology4kids.com/files/cell_chloroplast.html.>
There is an error. Under the food chain picture, I wrote that without chloroplast all ecosystems would corrupt. However I meant to say all ecosystems would not exist. Wrong wording*.
ReplyDeleteWhile chloroplasts are important, they are not the most important organelle. First of all, they are only present in plant cells, and only green plants at that. Also, they require sunlight to function, as their main purpose is to convert light energy into chemical energy. If there was no sunlight available, the chloroplasts would not be able to fulfill their job in the cell.
ReplyDeleteMitochondria, on the other hand, is present in all cells, and produces the energy that the other organelles (including choloroplasts) need to function properly. Mitochondria helps with other things in the cell too, like hormone production, for example.
First of all, although the chloroplast is only present in green plants, sugars created by the chloroplast are everywhere and oxygen, a by-product of photosynthesis, is essential to almost all living things. This includes the mitochondria, which uses both these essential things to produce usable energy. See without them, the mitochondria could not do it specialized function, which is to convert them into energy. As well, I feel that your "without the sun" debate is very poor. This is because, without the sun the chloroplast would not be able to make sugars, which would result with mitochondria not being able to produce usable energy. As well, your statement about the mitochondria being in 'every cell" is also false. The mitochondria is not present in prokaryotic cells. However all cells need the sugars and oxygen provided by the chloroplast to survive.
ReplyDeletemost cells need oxygen*
DeleteIt is the enzymes in mitochondria that help produce energy. Not the chloroplasts...remeber the mitochondria can produce energy without chloroplasts (like in animal cells)
DeleteFirstly, the mitochondria cannot produce energy without the essential byproducts of photosynthesis.During cellular respiration, the enzymes in the mitochondria break down sugar and oxygen (produced by chloroplast), reversing the process of photosynthesis to produce usable energy. Therefore, without the chloroplast, the mitochondria would not be able to produce usable energy
DeleteI do agree that you are a relatively important organelle, but ONLY in plants. This is because you physically are only present in plant cells. I, the mitochondria, am present in both plant and animal cells. I produce energy that all of the organelles, including you, need to survive. How do you expect to complete photosynthesis when you have no energy to even function. Well you can thank me for your ability to complete your job.
ReplyDeleteFor my response, just read what I posted on Gabs wall. Its just way too much effort.
DeleteAnd what I responded to Mikala's debate.
DeleteChloroplasts create glucose. Glucose is essential to life, carbon based animal life as well as plants. The mitochondria undergo a process of cellular respiration which convert *GLUCOSE* into *ENERGY* in the form of ATP.
ReplyDeleteWhere does the glucose come from? Plants. What makes glucose? Chloroplasts.
Chloroplasts are essential to life on earth - and without chloroplasts is the loss of glucose. Eventually this would collapse all ecosystems on earth and humans would, more than likely, have to find a different kind of glucose manufacturer.
Mitochondria are extremely useful, yes, but the material they require comes from chloroplasts. Regardless of whether chloroplasts are plant only, I would like to ask what do you guys eat? Plants. If you don't eat plants, and are a meat-eater only, what do the animals you eat eat? They eat plants, or animals that eat plants.
No matter how you look at it, all energy comes from plants.
Damien! Your supposed to be defending and telling people why your organelle is the best! Not defending others! Aha thanks tho! :)
DeleteAll of you can keep talking all you want. We all know the endoplasmic reticulum is the most important here! Look at it this way, the chloroplasts is only in the plant cell. If it was super important like the endoplasmic reticulum, it would be in both cells. Without me, nothing would get delivered throughout the membrane. I am the mailbox, and the road in the cell. I manage the packages.
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