Comments (-1). We would like to extend a warm welcome toMr. Aaron Eyler, Principal of Matawan Aberdeen Middle School,who will be starting in our district in late October.Please click here for a letter from Mr. Eyler to the MARSD community. We would like to extend a warm welcome toMr.
Chloroplasts are organelles found in plant cells and eukaryotic algae that conduct photosynthesis. Chloroplasts absorb sunlight and use it in conjunction with water and carbon dioxide gas to produce food for the plant. Chloroplasts capture light energy from the sun to produce the free energy stored in ATP and NADPH through a process called photosynthesis. Chloroplasts are one of the many unique organelles in the body, and are generally considered to have originated as endosymbiotic cyanobacteria.
The purpose for having chloroplast in plants is to produce food: glucose and other sugars. The chloroplast has chlorophyll (a green pigment), which is responsible for giving plants their characteristic color. The chlorophyll captures light energy to drive the photosynthetic reactions.