Practice question · True or false
Chloroplasts, chromoplasts and amyloplasts can convert from one type into another.
Hints
- Consider what happens visually when a fruit ripens.
- A tomato turning from green to red is chloroplasts becoming chromoplasts.
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True
Why
True, plastids are a single interconvertible family. A ripening tomato is chloroplasts converting to chromoplasts, and a potato tuber exposed to light shows amyloplasts becoming chloroplasts as it greens.
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