You Owe Your Life to Chloroplasts

question 13

Multiple Choice

You owe your life to chloroplasts.The reason for this is that:

• A)chloroplasts supply all the ATP needed by living organisms.
• B)when we eat plants, it is the chloroplasts that are the nutritious part of plant cells.
• C)chloroplasts produce all the water and carbon dioxide essential for life.
• D)chloroplasts produce the oxygen we breathe and ultimately are the source of most nutrients we consume.
• E)like the ancestors of mitochondria, the ancestors of chloroplasts were once bacteria taken up by a eukaryotic cell.

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