Q. What is the definition for the word chloroplast?
: a plastid that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis — see cell illustration.
Q. What’s another word for chloroplasts?
In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for chloroplast, like: photosynthesis, chromoplast, cell photosynthesis, plastid, organelle, centrosome, plasmids, chlamydomonas, cytoplasm, peroxisomes and nucleolus.
Q. What is chloroplast in points?
Chloroplasts are a type of membrane-bound plastids that contain a network of membranes embedded into a liquid matrix and harbor the photosynthetic pigment called chlorophyll. It is this pigment that imparts a green color to plant parts and serves to capture light energy.
Q. What are the main structures of chloroplasts?
Chloroplasts are enclosed by an envelope of two membranes which encompass a third complex membrane system, the thylakoids, including grana and lamellae. In addition, starch grains, plastoglobules, stromules, eyespots, pyrenoids, etc. are also important structures of chloroplasts.
Q. What is the most important part of the chloroplast?
Chloroplasts play an important part in the process of photosynthesis in some organisms. The chloroplast absorbs the energy in sunlight and uses it to produce sugars.
Q. How many cell layers thick is elodea?
The leaves of Elodea are quite thin at only two cell layers thick.
Q. How many chloroplasts are in a elodea cell?
Young elodea leaves have average number of 25 chloroplasts per cell while mature elodia leaves can have average number of 35 chloroplasts per cell.
Q. Why are elodea cells Green?
What were the green bodies inside the Elodea cells? (Chloroplasts.) Why are these chloroplasts green? (They are green because of the presence of chlorophyll, the light-absorbing pigment necessary for photosynthesis.)
Q. What cells are green?
The Story of Chlorophyll and Chloroplasts Round, green chloroplasts fill the middle of a plant cell. Image by Kristian Peters. Chloroplasts are tiny factories inside the cells of plants. They are also found in the cells of other organisms that use photosynthesis.
Q. What happens to elodea cells in a hypertonic solution?
Placing Elodea cells into 100% water, which is more hypotonic than freshwater, also causes water movement into of the cells resulting in the swelling of the cells. Thus, a hypertonic solution has less water than the cell and water moves (diffuses) out of the cell by osmosis.
Q. Where is the nucleus located in an elodea cell?
A group of leaf cells from the pondweed Elodea Notice the colourless space – the vacuole – in the middle of the cells. The nucleus appears to be hidden (between the chloroplasts?).
Q. What moves proteins in a cell?
The Endoplasmic Reticulum or ER is an extensive system of internal membranes that move proteins and other substances through the cell.
Q. What structures are visible in the elodea leaf cells?
What visible structures do the Elodea and the onion skin cells share? A cell wall, a nucleus, a cell membrane and a cytoplasm.
Q. Why is it difficult to identify the nucleus in elodea cells?
The nucleus is present but not visible, particularly in an Elodea cell, because the cell membrane is thin, transparent, and in direct contact with the cell wall of the Elodea cell. Nucleus visibility is difficult since chlorophyll hides other organelles within the cell.
