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Jere asked in Science & MathematicsBiology · 8 years ago

You owe your very life to chloroplasts. Explain why this is so.?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Chloroplasts are the part of plants that make energy from sunlight. They also breakdown CO2 to make oxygen to breath, which without you would die. Also since they give energy to plants they provide you with food, (even if your not a vegetable eater) animals eat it and you eat them.

    Source(s): AP Bio Student
  • 8 years ago

    Photosynthesis... which in turn creates oxygen...which in turn we breathe...which in turn we owe our existence to

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