plant organelles by Bridger Tjornehoj

Plant cells are eukaryotes like yours, but contain some different organelles than you. They still contain most of the organelles you have but different sizes, lengths and arrangements. Do you ever wonder why plants are green, get sunlight or contribute to photosynthesis? Really tiny holes or crevices called chloroplasts hold a very special plant organelle inside them called chlorophyll. So why does it make the plant green? Did you know that a blue t-shirt is actually every color but blue?! This is because blue is the only color that isn’t absorbed and bounces off the shirt into your eye. Similar to chlorophyll absorbing blue and red light and reflecting out green light. They absorb sunlight by trapping both sunlight and carbon dioxide inside the chloroplast and the chemistry turns them into a sugar called Glucose which the plant needs to survive also “exhaling” out oxygen as a waste gas. Xylem are the pipes of the plant, they collect nutrition from the soil the roots find and distribute them to the leaves, trunk, branches, etc.

What is photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is when plants and some micro organisms take in a gas called carbon dioxide which as you know need to make glucose and gives out oxygen as their waste gas, which humans and animals need and give out carbon dioxide as their waste gas, so everything wins!