Can Animals Have Chloroplasts
At least one group of animals has done this the Elysia sea slugs.
Can animals have chloroplasts. Plant cells have chloroplast. The animals need only direct light and carbon dioxide and have the ability to live healthily for months often getting most of their energy from photosynthesis. Pea Aphids are capable of producing carotenoids pigments found in chloroplasts photosynthetic organelles and chromoplasts giving them orange-reddish colour and helping chlorophyll with.
Plant cells have a cell wall chloroplasts and other specialized plastids and a large central vacuole whereas animal cells do not. 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. Organisms that have a well-defined shape and limited growth.
Some bacteria also perform photosynthesis but they do not have chloroplasts. They too can like E. A little freshwater jellyfish called hydra pinches chloroplasts out of green algae and keeps them in its own gut.
Like mitochondria chloroplasts have their own dna. The chloroplast was just too good an invention and many other organisms managed to beg. Plants use organelles called chloroplasts to trap light energy and produce food.
So far it seems like it might be a parallel process Woodson adds. The slugs highly branched gut. No animal cells do not have chloroplasts.
It lets them photosynthesise and nicks the sugars that. In fact many animals have done exactly this. With few exceptions most chloroplasts have their entire chloroplast genome combined into a single large circular DNA molecule typically 120000170000 base pairs long.