Can Animals Have Chloroplasts
Researchers have discovered that some animals can also use light to make food in their bodies though they require the help of a photosynthetic organism in order to do this.
Can animals have chloroplasts. Chloroplasts are organelles or small specialized bodies in plant cells that contain chlorophyll and help with the process of photosynthesis. Quite a few examples are in the cnidarians. Sea Slug - Elysia chlorotica.
Plants use organelles called chloroplasts to trap light energy and produce food. It is found in copious amounts. The chloroplast was just too good an invention and many other organisms managed to beg.
Plant cells have chloroplast. In fact many animals have done exactly this. Simple cells have very few Chloroplasts whereas complex plants can contain hundreds of them.
Cells whether plant or animal learn how to degrade defunct energy organelles selectively to survive By better understanding this process in chloroplasts the Salk team may be able to also glean insight into how the cells handle misbehaving mitochondria. Like mitochondria chloroplasts have their own dna. No animal cells do not have chloroplasts.
Their photosynthetic pigments are located in the thylakoid membrane within the cell itself. Chlorotica eats the algae it integrates chloroplasts into its own cells this process is made possible due to the fact that these slugs have a much less. Some bacteria also perform photosynthesis but they do not have chloroplasts.
Not that I know of as their own chloroplasts but there are more complex multicellular animals out there that pinch the chloroplasts from plants. Animal cells each have a centrosome and lysosomes whereas plant cells do not. Chloroplasts are a type of plastid that are distinguished by their green color the result of specialized chlorophyll pigments.