Why Do Animals Need Chloroplasts
Chloroplasts are like mitochondria in animals.
Why do animals need chloroplasts. Why dont animal cells have chloroplasts. Answered 1 year ago. Chloroplasts perform photosynthesis so only cells that can make their own food from sunlight carbon dioxide and water require chloroplasts.
Chloroplasts are green because they contain the pigment. Chloroplasts are organelles or small specialized bodies in plant cells that contain chlorophyll and help with the process of photosynthesis. Animal cells use mitochondria to convert food into energy and plant cells use both chloroplasts and mitochondria to make energy from light air and water.
Plants cells use photosynthesis from the sun which requires them to have chloroplast filled with chlorophyll to complete this function. The organelles are only found in plant cells and some protists such as algae. As plants make their own food they need chloroplasts but as animals rely on other organisms for food they do not need chloroplasts.
Animal cells have no such organelles because they are heterotrophic and feed off other organisms. Animal cells do not have chloroplasts. 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.
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. Cell wall gives the cell a regular shape. Thus it is needed by plants as plant parts are weak and do not have any outer protection.
Animal Cells dont need chloroplasts or chlorohpyll. Like mitochondria chloroplasts have their own DNA. 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.