Question

Can plants synthesise food without chlorophyll

Answer 1

No, plants cannot synthesize food without chlorophyll.

Why plants cannot synthesize food without chlorophyll?

• Plants need light energy from the sun to carry out the food making process i.e photosynthesis.
• The chloroplast present in the chlorophyll cells of a leaf traps the light energy from the sun.
• Hence, if chlorophyll is  not present, chloroplast will not be present for trapping the light energy and the process of photosynthesis will not occur.