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Plants cells have chloroplasts because they need it for a process called photosynthesis. But both plant and animal cells have mitochondria. Animal cells can use the mitochondria to get energy that why they need chloroplast.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 11y agoPlants carry out photosynthesis - which occurs in the chloroplast. Animals cannot photosynthesize.
Plant cells have evolved a way to use light to provide energy for photosynthesis. The chloroplasts contain the pigment chlorphyll which allows them to utilize the energy from light. Animal cells evolved without the cellular machinery to perform photosynthesis, therefore they do not have chloroplasts and are heterotrophs, needing to feed on another organism in order to survive.
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∙ 14y agoPlants need to create their own food, by photosynthesis, and the chloroplast is a vital organelle to preform photosynthesis. Animals are consumers, so they get their food by eating other things.... They don't need to make their own food, by photosynthesis, so they don't have the organelle.
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∙ 13y agoChlorophyll, which gives plants their green color, enables them to use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars and carbohydrates, chemicals the cell uses for fuel. ... Like the fungi, another kingdom of eukaryotes, plant cells have retained the protective cell wall structure of their prokaryotic ancestors.
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∙ 11y agoanimals are mammels and are just awesome like that- LIKE A BOSS
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∙ 10y agoChloroplasts inside animal cells are responsible for the green pigmentation (they don't "like" light in the green wavelength so that's why they're green)
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Is the choroplast found in the plant cell or animal cell?
Chloroplasts are only found in plant cells. If they were in animal cells, people would be green.
Do animal cells ever have chlorophyll pigments inside?
Yes, animal cells have chlorpoyll, which is made of green pigment, plant cells also have pigment!
Is it easy to tell animal cells form plant cells?
The plant cell will have a square shape, to a degree, as the cell wall is in plant cells and not animal cells. You can see the green of chloroplasts and usually a large central vacuole. Animal cell more round and not having the " extras " listed above.
Is the muscle cell a plant or animal cell?
A cell membrane is found in both plant and animal cells. However only plant cells have both a cell wall and a cell membrane.
What is the difference between plant cell and animal cells?
an animal cell contains a nucleus as does the plant cell. the plant cell contains a cell wall but the animal cell contains a cell membrane. they bothe have the same purpose to protect the inner layer of the cells. a plant cell has a vacoule which is a storage area for cytoplasm and an animal cell does not. a plant cell also contains chloroplast which is a pigment to give the plant cells its green color.
One plant cell that is not in a animal cell?
plant cells arent in animal cells the difference is that a plant cell has a cell wall and a larger vacoule
What is found in animal cells but not green plant cells?
Chloroplast
Do a plant or animal cells contains a chloroplasts?
okay, animal cells don't have chloroplasts!! only plant cells do!! chloroplasts give the plant its green color!!
Do both plant and animal cells have chloroplasts?
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
What is the most obvious difference between plant cells and animal cells?
plant cells are green and rectangular and animal cells are red and round.
Is chloroplasts found in plant or animal cells?
the cell that has a chloroplast is the plant cell
Is the choroplast found in the plant cell or animal cell?
Chloroplasts are only found in plant cells. If they were in animal cells, people would be green.
Does a Animal Cell have a chloroplast?
Nope an animal cell does not have chloroplast.
What is in plant cell but not in animal cells?
Plant cells have cell wall, one large vacuole, chloroplast and animal cells do not.
What does plant cell have?
lots of stuff, but remember this especially, it has a cell wall; which animal cells do not, and chloroplast, which makes the plant green, also which animal cells do not have.
Is there chloroplasts in animal cells?
There is NO chloroplasts in animal cells. There is only in plant cells because chloroplasts give plants there green color.
Is chlorophyll found in plant or animal cells?
Plants. :) It's the green stuff that helps with photosynthesis.
