Energy story
Chloroplasts capture light and fix carbon into energy-rich molecules. Mitochondria later release usable ATP through respiration. The two organelles exchange matter but perform different transformations.
BOTANY · CELL BIOLOGY · INTERACTIVE ATLAS
A living architecture, inside one plant cell.
Point, click and trace how organelles cooperate: light becomes chemical energy, information becomes protein, and water pressure becomes structure.
INTERACTIVE ANATOMY
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FIND THIS STRUCTUREChloroplast
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THREE CONNECTED STORIES
Do not memorize a bag of organelles—follow matter and information.
Information story
The nucleus protects DNA and produces RNA instructions. Ribosomes translate them; rough ER folds and begins processing proteins; Golgi sorts, modifies and ships the products in vesicles.
Mechanical story
Water entering the central vacuole generates turgor pressure. The plasma membrane presses outward, while the cellulose-rich wall resists expansion. Their balance lets soft living tissue stand upright.
PLANT ≠ ANIMAL
Three features change the whole cell
Plant cells share nucleus, ER, Golgi, ribosomes and mitochondria with animal cells. Their cellulose wall, plastids and large central vacuole create a different mechanical and metabolic design.
Cell wallshape, protection, turgor resistance
Chloroplastphotosynthetic carbon fixation
Central vacuolestorage, pH, recycling and pressure
CLASSROOM INVESTIGATION
Use the atlas as evidence
- Trace the route of a secreted protein from DNA to the cell exterior.
- Predict what happens to turgor when the surrounding solution becomes hypertonic.
- Explain why a root cell may contain mitochondria but few chloroplasts.
- Separate structures visible with a light microscope from those requiring electron microscopy.