For example, plant cells contain chloroplasts since they need to perform photosynthesis, but animal cells do not.

Do animal cells have chloroplasts?

Chloroplasts are the food producers of the cell. The organelles are only found in plant cells and some protists such as algae. Animal cells do not have chloroplasts. ... The entire process is called photosynthesis and it all depends on the little green chlorophyll molecules in each chloroplast.

Which animal contains chloroplast?

Pierce's slug, however, takes just parts of cells, the little green photosynthetic organelles called chloroplasts, from the algae it eats. The slug's highly branched gut network engulfs these stolen bits and holds them inside slug cells.