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__ Chloe and Mit’s Life in the Sun __ Chloe Chloroplast and Mit Mitochondrion met at the recycling center of a plant cell. It was love at first sight for them due to the superficial fact that they both had double outer membranes. The cell was a commune of organelles that shared the responsibilities of supporting each other lead by Bersandra Nuclei. Having a few of their own genes, Chloe and Mit could think for themselves, plus they valued having an education. The other organelles were told what to think by the media currently backing Ms. Nuclei’s and her likeminded messenger RNA. Having smarts but not wisdom, Chloe and Mit drove to Vegas and got married that very weekend.

Chloe being a chloroplast made the plant cell a producer. She loved working in the garden which gave her a beautiful dark complexion. Her job was to store the energy in sunlight by the process of photosynthesis. With her college education and high motivation, she put energy from the sun into glucose like no other chloroplast. Her help and example led other chloroplasts around her to do the same. Chloe used the raw materials of carbon dioxide and water, baked them with sunlight, to produce lots of high quality glucose a carbohydrate. After dark she slept well, preparing to work in the sun again the next day.

Mit’s job demanded a lot of energy. As a mitochondrion, cellular respiration was what he did. Mit released the energy in glucose by breaking it down. His job was to make ADP into ATP-Energy and distribute it to all the other organelles just when they needed it. To do this he needed the raw materials of glucose and oxygen. He transferred the energy in glucose into ATP-energy that the whole commune could use. Because of his training and internship after high school, Mit was very good at what he did. No other mitochondrion could release energy from glucose like Mit. He was not a workaholic, but Mit had to work around the clock. This and the need for a lot of glucose put a bit of strain on his relationship with Chloe.

Chloe and Mit’s relationship blossomed. Chloe took good care of Mit. She made sure he had all the glucose he needed so he could do his job. Mit also needed oxygen from the air, but Chloe provided that too. Mit also took good care of Chloe. He provided her with carbon dioxide and water. In other words the products of photosynthesis were what Mit needed and the products of cellular respiration were what Chloe needed. The codependent relationship was mutual. They shared everything and hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen atoms cycled from one to the other and back.

The cycling of matter wasn’t the only thing that made Chloe’s and Mit’s relationship strong. Energy also flowed through it too. Chloe captured energy from the Sun. Through photosynthesis she stored the energy in glucose. Mit took the glucose and released the energy by cellular respiration, transferring it to ATP-Energy. Thus, energy flowed from the Sun, to Chloe, into the glucose, then to Mit, into ATP-Energy, and finally into doing the functions of the cell. This flow of energy was not only good for Chloe and Mit, but the whole commune, making a peaceful existence for the plant cell.

Use the story above to outline the details of the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Address with details how matter cycles and energy flows.

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