The chloroplast does not give plant cells any type of advantage at all.
More Info: As cells go, each cell performs well within it's own environment.
However, chloroplasts do allow the plant cell to produce it's own food (making it a producer), through a process called photosynthesis. The process takes light energy and chlorophyll (and several other chemicals) to make glucose. Glucose is then used by the cell as it's energy source. Plant cells can use their own glucose.
Animal cells need to take in (making animals consumers instead of producers) an energy source that eventually is converted to glucose. Ultimately, animal cells cannot perform photosynthesis because they don't have chloroplasts.
It allows plants to carry out photosynthesis, which allows them to convert carbon-dioxide and water into sugar as a source of energy. Animals however have a digestive system that can absorb energy faster and allows animals to use more energy than plants. So animal cells don't really need chloroplasts, so chloroplasts wouldn't be of any advantage to most animals.
in many ways it does, the process of photosynthesis is very helpful to plants and trees, but its in their DNA stucture. evolution has given plants the unique ability to create food from sunlight as they cannot move or fend for themselves, animals don't need this as they can get their own food. but one disadvantage of photosynthesis is that a plant or tree in a place with little or no light cannot thrive and so will die, this happens rarely though as the methods of seed dispersion are very effective thats a very basic view on the subject, if you want a more in-depth explanation just ask
They Can Photosynthesis And Therefore Crate There Own Energy From Sunlight Instead Of Having To Digest Food To Get There Energy :)
I suppose that the ability to make your own food and building materials from sunlight, carbon dioxide, a few trace minerals and water could be termed an advantage.
Yes, plant cells can produce their own food whereas animals have to find and consume their food sources. That is what plants are the most successful living organism on Earth.
Yes of course it gives. Plants have no competition for food or it is minimized.
because they generate their own nutrience
plant cells have a cell wall surrounding the cell membrane for protection and rigidity, animal cells don't have a cell wall. plant cells have larger vacuoles than animal cells. animal cells have centrioles to aid in cell division, plant cells do not. plant cells have chloroplasts (used in photosynthesis) and chlorophyll (the green pigment), animal cells do not have either of those.
i think that it was virchow? we learned it in science earlier this year!
the plant cell is round and the animal cell is squered
The centrioles are the cell organelle that are found in animal cells but not in plant cells.
The two basic types of cells , I belive, are plant and animal cells.
Animal cells don't have chloroplasts. Only plant cells have them, so it can't be in any way an "advantage" to animal cells.
No, both plant and animal cells do not have chloroplast. Plant cells have chloroplast that is why their leaves are green. Such as animals they do not. K.K
Chloroplast is plant cells because that is where photosynthesis occurs.
Nope. It is only in plant cells. The mitochondria is basically the same thing as a chloroplast, only it is found in animal cells. Plant Cell - Chloroplast Animal Cell - Mitochondria
the cell that has a chloroplast is the plant cell
Chloroplasts are found in plant cells.
Plant cell
Chloroplasts are not in animal cells. They are in plant cells
no animal cells dont have chloroplast, chloroplast is only in plant cells and turns the color of the plant green.
Yes chloroplast can only be found in plant cells.
No, it doesn't have a chloroplast. Only a plant cell does.
Chloroplast is found in plant cells.