Katiusca Gonzalez

 Chloroplast- are organelles special units in a plant and algal cells  They conduct photosynthesis in plants, the photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll that captures the energy from sunlight  It stores it in an energy storage ATP and NADPH, and frees oxygen from water

 Chloroplasts few of many types of organelles in a plant cell.  They are originated from cyanobacteria through endosymbiosis.  Chloroplasts are only found in plants algae.

 Cyanobacteria are basically the ancestors of chloroplasts.  They can be called blue-green algae even though they are prokaryotes  Prokaryotes- single- celled organism that has neither a distinct nucleus with a membrane nor other specialized organelles

 The alga Cyanophora, a glaucophyte, is thought to be one of the first organism to have chloroplast in it.  The Glaucophyte chloroplast group is the smallest of three main chloroplasts  Glaucophyte chloroplast thylakoids are studded with light colleting structures called phycobilisomes.  Phycobilisomes- light harvesting antennae of photosysem 2 in cyanobacteria, red algae and glaucophytes.