Do Any Animals Have Chloroplasts. Why do any animals cell contain no chloroplast? Since plants can't move around, green plants use chloroplasts along with nutrients from the ground (or insects), water and sunlight to create a chain reaction called photosynthesis and create energy for the.
See elysia chlorotica whose cells actively take up chloroplasts and use them, and keep them alive (though not replicating). Chlorotica can, during time periods where algae is not readily available as a food supply, survive for months. Why do any animals cell contain no chloroplast?
No, in fact no animals create chloroplasts.
However, species like tridacna are able to live in symbiosis with algae living in their mantle tissues and so kind of can photosynthesise. And plant cells usually have a regular shape. Animals have chloroplasts, while plants do not. Tissues are made from cells of a similar type.
