Chloroplasts

Chloroplasts - GREEN!



**Chloroplasts** are the food producers of the cell. They are only found in plant cells and some [|protists]. Animal cells do not have chloroplasts. Every green [|plant] you see is working to convert the energy of the sun into sugars. Plants are the basis of all life on Earth. They create sugars, and the byproduct of that process is the oxygen that we breathe. That process happens in the chloroplast. [|Mitochondria] work in the opposite direction and break down the sugars and nutrients that the cell receives.