Explainer – 9 – Plastids

Normal animals and human beings gain their food by their surrounding but plants use special organelles known as plastids, they help in food synthesis.

There are 3 types of plastids:-

• Chloroplasts 
• These plastids contained chlorophyll which helps plants in photosynthesis.
• The process in which plants make their own food by using materials like carbon dioxide etc from the environment.
• Chromoplasts

• The Plastids which give colour to the petals of the flowers in plants.
• Its pigments are colourful (yellow, red, purple etc)
• Such bright petals attract pollinators for pollination and fruit eating animals that help in seed dispersal
• Leucoplasts

• Some plastids are colourless and are called Leucoplasts.
• Leucoplasts store food material such as starch, oil, or proteins.

In the next explainer we will talk about cell division.