What organelle functions as the cells power plant converting one form of energy to another?

Answer 1

Chloroplasts and mitochondria are the right answers if you are talking about plant cells (yes, there are mitochondria in plant cells as well). If you are talking about animal cells then just mitochondria is the right answer.

Chloroplasts use photic energy (sunlight) to produce sugar which is then broken down inside of the cell.

Through a series of steps that sugar is transported to the mitochondria where electrical energy (a voltage potential) is used to drive an enzyme called ATP Synthase and make ATP which stores potential energy in its chemical bonds (chemical energy, if that is acceptable to your teacher).

Animals, like humans, can just eat sugar so we bypass the conversion of sunlight to sugar and we don't need the chloroplasts anymore. However we still need the mitochondria.

Answer 2

Golgi Bodies - are used for packaging and secreting of energy
Mitochondria - break down food and release energy to the cell. They provides the energy a cell needs to move, divide, produce secretory products, contract - in short, they are the power centers of the cell. They are about the size of bacteria but may have different shapes depending on the cell type.

Answer 3

Mitochondria are called the Power Houses of the Cell. they produce ATP. Nucleus only helps in dividing and making new cell organelles.

Answer 4

The answer your teacher is looking for is "mitochondria."

Mitochondria in eukaryotes manufacture high energy ATP, by converting glucose and oxygen to carbon dioxide and water.

Answer 5

I agree with the answer Mitochondria.

Answer 6

Chloroplasts.

Answer 7

mitochondria

Answer 8

golgi bodies