Chloroplast Cells

• Enables plant cells to make their own food.
• Folded inner membranes allow for a greater surface area for biochemical reactions to take place.

• Cell consists of grana which contain chlorophyll, stroma, the enzymes that are necessary to help complete the process of photosynthesis, starch grains, the form in which food is stored as, and thylakoids, where photosynthesis light reactions occur.
• Chloroplasts contain their own DNA.
• Chloroplasts have a double membrane, an outer permeable membrane, and an inner partially permeable membrane that controls the movement of molecules in and out of the cell, such as sugars and proteins.