TREE PHYSIOLOGY
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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Question
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Why can’t animals do photosynthesis?
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They are not green
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Animals don’t need energy
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Animals don’t have chloroplasts
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Because animals get sugar from the food they eat, they do not need chloroplasts: just mitochondria.
Detailed explanation-2: -Commonalities of energy processing in both plants and animals have become even stronger by the finding that chloroplast can be found in animal cells.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chlorophyll is present inside chloroplast. This is a feature of plant cells. Animal cells do not contain chlorophyll containing chloroplasts. Hence, they cannot perform photosynthesis.
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