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This is because chlorophyll in the plants allow them to absorb the suns energy and turn it into sugar through a process called photosynthesis. Animals do not contain chlorophyll within their bodies therefore they are not able to produce these sugars.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoBecause animals e.g humans dont photosynthesize
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∙ 13y agobecause plant cells have special structures called chloroplasts, these structures help plants make food usine light during photosynthesis. and animals cannot make their own food.
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∙ 12y agobecause plants have this thing in their leaves that make sugar which is their food.
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∙ 10y agocuz u have no cloroplast its whats in a plant cell that turns the sunlight into energy
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∙ 9y agowhy are animals not able to produce their own food
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∙ 14y agoThey lack chlorophyll.
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Are living conditions for plants and animals similar?
no, because plants make their own food where animals depend on others . animals can move freely but plants cannot move freely.
What are consumers like?
Consumers are animals that cannot make there own food from the process of photosynthesis They instead eat other animals or plants.
What process that plants and animals use sunlight to make food?
Green plants use a process called photosynthesis to make food from sunlight. Only green plants can make their own food. Other plants (like mushrooms) and animals do not make their own food, but get nutrition from green plants (or dead green plants). Animals do not make food from sunlight. If they could, they would not need to eat.
A fungus differs from green plants in that it does not make?
Its own food as plants do or eat food as animals do.
Why our body cannot make food from carbon dioxide water and minerals like plants do?
Has now chlorophyll
What living thing cannot make its own food?
animals can't make their own food, plants and people can but animals can't
The food plants make is what?
Photosynthesis
Why can plant perform photosynthesis but animals cannot?
plants need to photosynthesis as this is how they make their food. animals do not as they get their food from other sources such as plants and other animals.
Why cannot animals make food from carbon dioxide?
Animals have no source of energy to make food. Animals get energy from the food they eat. Plants have a way of capturing energy from sunlight which they then use to make carbohydrates
Are living conditions for plants and animals similar?
no, because plants make their own food where animals depend on others . animals can move freely but plants cannot move freely.
What organism can't make their own food?
Consumers are organisms that cannot make their own food.
What organism cannot make their own food and eat plants and animals?
Any omnivore, humans for example.
What can plants do with their chloroplasts that animals cannot do?
Plants can make their own food!Plants can photosynthesise. Makin glucose from waterand carbon dioxide using light.
What are consumers like?
Consumers are animals that cannot make there own food from the process of photosynthesis They instead eat other animals or plants.
What are two reasons why animals rely on photosynthesis?
Animals do not rely on photosynthesis - plants do. Animals cannot make their own food. That's why they can move around.
Animals depend on plants to make?
Animals such as omnivores depend on plants 2 make food.
What are some characteristics of a animal?
Animals cannot make their own food. Some eat plants, some eat
