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Unlike prokaryotes, eukaryotic cells compartmentalize various metabolic processes inside membrane-bound organelles. For example, the breakdown of certain food molecules to provide energy takes place in the mitochondrion, and photosynthesis takes place in a chloroplast. Compartmentalization of metabolic processes makes eukaryotic cells very efficient and allows them to increase in size.
As you read in Chapter 7, photosynthesis is the process by which plants and other producers convert the energy of sunlight into the energy stored in organic molecules. Just as cellular respiration takes place largely within a cell's mitochondria, photosynthesis also occurs in a specific organelle.