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9 years ago
Given that photosynthetic cells have several light driven processes for generating ATP (cyclic and noncyclic photophosphorylation), as well as substrate-level phosphorylation, do plant cells need the mitochondria that they have inherited from their eukaryotic ancestors? Explain your answer
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9 years ago
During dark reactions (Calvin cycle) in the stroma of the chloroplasts glycerate phosphate is produced.Now to make proteins the glycerate phosphate is converted to acetyl coenzyme A and fed into the Krebs cycle and converted into an acid in the MITOCHONDRIA. Then the acid combines with ammonia to form an amino acid and then to proteins by the process of protein synthesis in ribosomes.

In addition, at night it's dark. Chloroplasts don't make ATP when it is dark. Secondly, the chloroplasts don't share the ATP they make with the rest of the cell anyway. They use that to make carbohydrates.
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