Can Animals Have Chloroplasts
Chloroplast structure within the cells of plants and green algae that is the site of photosynthesis.
Can animals have chloroplasts. Not that I know of as their own chloroplasts but there are more complex multicellular animals out there that pinch the chloroplasts from plants. In addition to burglarizing the genes needed to make the green pigment chlorophyll the slugs also steal tiny cell parts called chloroplasts which they use to conduct photosynthesis. Write in the similarities and differences between plant and animal cells.
Chloroplasts are present in plant cells and they are able to produce all 20 amino acids compared to animal cells which do not have chloroplasts and can only produce 10 of the 20 essential amino acids. Simple cells have very few Chloroplasts whereas complex plants can contain hundreds of them. So far it seems like it might be a parallel process Woodson adds.
Eukaryotic Plasma membrane Mitochondrion Can have Ciliaflagella Large vacuole Small or no vacuole Chloroplasts Cell wall Endoplasmic reticulum 10-30 um 10-100 um Golgi apparatus Nucleus Cytoplasm. Quite a few examples are in the cnidarians. Plants use organelles called chloroplasts to trap light energy and produce food.
The most abundant protein in Chloroplast is called Rubisco. It lets them photosynthesise and nicks the sugars that. At least one group of animals has done this the Elysia sea slugs.
Researchers have discovered that some animals can also use light to make food in their bodies though they require the help of a photosynthetic organism in order to do this. A little freshwater jellyfish called hydra pinches chloroplasts out of green algae and keeps them in its own gut. Animals and humans do not need Chloroplasts because we get our energy from eating and digesting food.
Pea Aphids are capable of producing carotenoids pigments found in chloroplasts photosynthetic organelles and chromoplasts giving them orange-reddish colour and helping chlorophyll with. Like mitochondria chloroplasts have their own dna. Animal cells on the other hand have round or irregular shapes and contain one or more smaller vacuoles.