Grade 11 Biology homework help!! (photosynthesis)?

Question

Here is the question... I honestly have no idea.

"Despite many attempts, researchers have been unable to get photosynthesis to proceed outside a chloroplast in a multi-celled organism. Why are researchers still interested in pursuing this goal? What possible practical use could come from attaining this goal?"

ANY HELP AT ALL IS GREATLY GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Answer 1

Well, photosynthesis is how the plant makes it's food. (Talking simplisticly here) The plant uses sunlight. If researchers can figure out how to make this work without chloroplast, they might be able to figure out how to use sunlight to feed animals and humans. This would fix a lot of the world hunger issues.

Answer 2

Uhmm.

They are still intrested because they could get a lot of money from this, and make a new discovery. They could possibly use this discovery and attempt to put this photosynthesis ability into animal cells. And so on and so forth.
As for practical uses, if photosynthesis occurs outside a chloroplast they could use this plant sugar and sell it to aid plants that are dying becuase they can't process enough plant sugar. Also perhaps you could use this plant sugar to feed plants that do not have access to sunlight. Farmers could benefit from this..


Not so sure though.

Answer 3

we did a brief study of photosynthesis in my 9th grade biology class this year. if you said that they wanted to execute photosyntehsis without the use of a chloroplast, then my guess is that they want to see if the process can be done in cells other than plant cells. i think this is because animal cells don't have chloroplasts. this is all i could think of.

Answer 4

photosynthesis uses light energy and carbon dioxide to make sugar and oxygen

right now the planet is dealing with global warming due to an accumulation of carbon dioxide and other gases

so if we could do photosynthesis in a bottle and not tie it to a growing plant which needs space, water and talking to (wait.. is that just me talking to my plants?...) we could stop and reverse the global warming..
practical? you bet - keeping the planet temp constant - not warming - may reduce the severity of tropical storms

so you don't believe that we have a problem with global warming - okaaay...
so photosynthesis could still be used to make sugar from CO2 - sugar is one of the most widely used substances on the planet... and sugar from CO2 would make millions

hope this helps

Answer 5

Photosysnthesis is the extraction of energy - by organic means - from sunlight. If researchers could figure out a way for it to happen outside the chloroplast or organic componds then solar panels could use that to enerigize the next generation of machines. It alls comes down to trying to use the suns' energy for power.