A. How do cells in plant roots survive, since they contain no chloroplasts and are not exposed

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A. How do cells in plant roots survive, since they contain no chloroplasts and are not exposed to light?

B. Unlike mitochondria, chloroplasts do not have a transporter that allows them to export ATP to the cytosol. How, then, do plant cells obtain the ATP that they need to carry out energy requiring metabolic reactions in the cytosol?

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Essential Cell Biology

ISBN: 9780393680362

5th Edition

Authors: Bruce Alberts, Karen Hopkin, Alexander Johnson, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter

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