Transcript Amyloplasts and Chloroplasts

By Lindsey Leetham, Sydney Saunders,
Riley Currie, and Alice Leask
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Amyloplasts are small organelles that are
found only in plant cells
Though they are colorless and not very well
known, they play an important role for plants
They appear as small round pockets filled with
little bubbles
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Amyloplasts are responsible for storing starch
granules as well as converting the starch they
store into sugar when a plant needs energy.
They store the starch by polymerization of
glucose
Overall, they are responsible for giving plants
energy.
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Amyloplasts can turn into chloroplasts
They are almost always found in fruits or in the
skin of tubers, such as potatoes or carrots
Now on to
Chloroplasts!
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Like amyloplasts, chloroplasts are organelles
that are found only in plant cells
They are filled with the chemical chlorophyll
They are filled with green pigments, and that’s
what gives plants their color!
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Chloroplasts are responsible for helping their
mother plant photosynthesize
The chlorophyll in the chloroplasts help trap
the suns energy and make sugar so the plant
can have energy and grow.
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Chloroplasts appear as small stacks of coins
The “coins” are actually flat, membranecovered sacs that store chlorophyll
They look green because of the pigments in
chlorophyll
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Amyloplasts
Chloroplasts
Both
*Convert starch
to sugar
*Only found
in plant cells
*No color
*Help give
plants
energy
*Found in fruits
and tubers
*Are
organelles
*Help plants
photosynthesize
*Filled with
chlorophyll
*green colored,
look like stacks
of coins
*found in nearly
every plant