1. By Lindsey Leetham, Sydney Saunders, Riley Currie, and Alice Leask

2.  Amyloplasts are small organelles that are found only in plant cells  Though they are colorless and not very well known, they play an important role for plants  They appear as small round pockets filled with little bubbles Image:

3.  Amyloplasts are responsible for storing starch granules as well as converting the starch they store into sugar when a plant needs energy.  They store the starch by polymerization of glucose  Overall, they are responsible for giving plants energy.

4.  Amyloplasts can turn into chloroplasts  They are almost always found in fruits or in the skin of tubers, such as potatoes or carrots

5. Now on to Chloroplasts!

6.  Like amyloplasts, chloroplasts are organelles that are found only in plant cells  They are filled with the chemical chlorophyll  They are filled with green pigments, and that’s what gives plants their color!

7.  Chloroplasts are responsible for helping their mother plant photosynthesize  The chlorophyll in the chloroplasts help trap the suns energy and make sugar so the plant can have energy and grow.

8.  Chloroplasts appear as small stacks of coins  The “coins” are actually flat, membrane- covered sacs that store chlorophyll  They look green because of the pigments in chlorophyll Image:

9. * Help plants photosynthesize *Filled with chlorophyll *green colored, look like stacks of coins *found in nearly every plant Amyloplasts Both *Convert starch to sugar *No color *Found in fruits and tubers *Only found in plant cells *Help give plants energy *Are organelles Chloroplasts