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You can't see chloroplasts in an onion skin cell since the onion was underground. When the onion is underground, the sun can't reach the onion so the onion skin cells can't make glucose. The onion does have chloroplasts in its cells at the top of the onion. That's where he sunlight can reach the onion.

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There are chloroplasts in the leaves of the onion plant, but the onion bulb that is eaten grows underground where it would be useless to have chloroplasts, because there is no light.

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because onion grows underground and gets no sunlight for photosynthesis, the plant doesn't waste its chloroplasts on its onions

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Onions are underground structures.They do not get light to direct photosynthesis.

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