Do Any Animals Have Chloroplasts
Plants as every 3rd grader learns use chloroplasts to generate high energy electrons in the form.
Do any animals have chloroplasts. The organelles are only found in plant cells and some protists such as algae. The entire process is called photosynthesis and it all depends on the little green chlorophyll molecules in each chloroplast. Pierces slug however takes just parts of cells the little green photosynthetic organelles called chloroplasts from the algae it eats.
See Elysia chloroticawhose cells actively take up chloroplasts and use them and keep them alive though not replicating. Chloroplasts work to convert light energy of the Sun into sugars that can be used by cells. A little freshwater jellyfish called hydra pinches chloroplasts out of green algae and keeps them in its own gut.
Chloroplasts are found only in plants and photosynthetic algae. Animal cells do not have chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are the food producers of the cell.
Humans and animals dont have chloroplasts in their cells. Animal cells have centrosomes or a pair of centrioles and lysosomes whereas plant cells do not. Chloroplasts transport important molecules for the cell to use.
Plant cells have a cell wall chloroplasts plasmodesmata and plastids used for storage and a large central vacuole whereas animal cells do not. Animal cells do not have chloroplasts. Furthermore most animals can move and this capability is an enormous advantage when it comes to feeding finding a mate and escaping from predators.
Plants have chloroplasts to make their own food and they do this by photosynthesis. The slugs highly branched gut. Sea Slug - Elysia chlorotica.