Russian botanist Konstantin Mereschkowsky was the first person to discover the chloroplast. He discovered the chloroplast while working with lichens. Chloroplasts evolved from “swallowed up” prokaryotes(Unicellular organisms : bacteria) that once lived as independent organisms. At some point, a eukaryote (A eukaryote is any organism whose cells contain a …show more content…
The most common pigment is chlorophyll which gives plants their green colour. Chlorophyll helps to absorb energy from sunlight.
If chloroplasts didn't exist, plants wouldn't be able to survive because photosynthesis is needed for plant survival and because plants provide us with oxygen, humans and animals would no longer be able to breathe. The chloroplasts also rely on humans for survival because when we breathe out carbon dioxide, the plants take it in and use it for photosynthesis. This connection of dependence between animals, humans and plants is a thing for maintainable life on this planeInstead of mobile phone towers and street lights, imagine a world where trees light our way at night and branches are antennae.
Their research into "bionic plants“ shows how they can put particles into plants to improve them or give non-natural properties.
In experiments on chloroplasts taken from baby spinach leaves and thale cress(a type of flower), the researchers shows they can: make plants sensitive to certain stuff, so now they can now use them as sensors
Improve the plants' photosynthesis activity so they are at least three times more of use than normal