is there anything from the animal kingdom that has chloroplasts or chlorophyll??? Protista do NOT count...thanks!!!
please include the common name...not the genus-species name.
2006-09-27 09:54:52 · 4 answers · asked by skybubbles 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Hmm -- don't like to argue, but found this abstract from Marine Biology:
"Abstract Alcohol-soluble photosynthetic products of chloroplasts symbiotic in three species of sacoglossan slugs (Elysia hedgpethi, Placida dendritica Placobranchus ianthobapsus) were analyzed and compared to products of chloroplasts in an intact alga. Animal-cell chloroplasts appear to lack the ability to synthesize either lipids or sucrose. They do, however, produce greater percentages of TCA-cycle intermediates than do chloroplasts from the intact alga investigated."
So, it seems to say that some types of slugs have chloroplasts! Neat.
2006-09-27 10:04:10 · answer #1 · answered by Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think any animals in the animalia kingdom have chloroplasts or chlorphyll those organelles are only found commonly in plants and algae also you may find organisms in the Fungi kingdom that have these organelles but in the animal kingdom I'm pretty sure there aren't any.
2006-09-27 16:57:48 · answer #2 · answered by goodquestion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, chloroplasts are found only in plants and protists, while chlorophyll is found only in plants, protists, and cyanobacteria.
2006-09-27 17:00:14 · answer #3 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. None that we know of.
2006-09-27 16:57:31 · answer #4 · answered by عبد الله (ドラゴン) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋