Why Do Animals Need Chloroplasts
Chloroplasts are organelles or small specialized bodies in plant cells that contain chlorophyll and help with the process of photosynthesis.
Why do animals need chloroplasts. For example plant cells contain chloroplasts since they need to perform photosynthesis but animal cells do not. However plant cells and animal cells do not look exactly the same or have all of the same organelles since they each have different needs. Like mitochondria chloroplasts have their own DNA.
Thus it is needed by plants as plant parts are weak and do not have any outer protection. The organelles are only found in plant cells and some protists such as algae. Animal cells each have a centrosome and lysosomes whereas plant cells do not.
Chloroplasts perform photosynthesis so only cells that can make their own food from sunlight carbon dioxide and water require chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are like mitochondria in animals. Plant cells need both chloroplasts and mitochondria because they perform both photosynthesis and cell respiration.
Chloroplast converts light solar energy into chemical energy during photosynthesis while mitochondria the powerhouse of the cell produces ATP- the energy currency of the cell during respiration. They directly or indirectly depend on plant for food. Plants need them in order to inhance the nutrients taken in by the C02 in the air.
Why do plant cells have chloroplasts and animal cells do not. Both plant and animal cells are eukaryotic so they contain membrane-bound organelles like the nucleus and mitochondria. Chloroplasts are green because they contain the pigment.
After photosynthesis which chloroplasts are needed for which yields oxygen and glucose plants need to break down the glucose and they use cell respiration to do this which happens in the mitochondria. While we do see some examples of animals that have chloroplasts and mitochondria in some of their cells such as in some sea slugs scientists wanted to see if they could make an animal that could photosynthesize. Animals do not needto.