Do Any Animals Have Chloroplasts
The first of these amazing photosynthetic animals is a sea slug Elysia chlorotica which effectively steals genes from the algae that makes up its diet.
Do any animals have chloroplasts. 10 27 This is called serial endosymbiosis an early eukaryote engulfing the mitochondrion ancestor and some descendants of it then engulfing the chloroplast ancestor creating a cell with both chloroplasts and mitochondria. Likewise do protist cells have chloroplasts. They are so common in animal cells because when animal cells take in or absorb food they need the enzymes found in lysosomes in.
The organelles are only found in plant cells and some protists such as algae. Not that I know of as their own chloroplasts but there are more complex multicellular animals out there that pinch the chloroplasts from plants. Furthermore most animals can move and this capability is an enormous advantage when it comes to feeding finding a mate and escaping from predators.
Pierces slug however takes just parts of cells the little green photosynthetic organelles called chloroplasts from the algae it eats. Chloroplasts are the organelles that are the site of photosynthesis. Chloroplasts are the food producers of the cell.
No animal cells dont have cloroplasts. Do animal cells have lysosomes. Animal cells do not have chloroplasts.
Chloroplasts are the food producers of the cell. They do not need the rigid network that cell walls provide to stand upright. Do animals cells have chloroplasts.
Humans and animals dont have chloroplasts in their cells. - Though some genes of algae are also contained in the Elysia chlorotica genome - which may be. Like mitochondria chloroplasts have their own DNA.