Do Animal Cells Have Chloroplasts. The overwhelming majority of animal(s) (cells) do not contain chlorophyll. Animal cells are mostly round and irregular shapes, while plant cells have a fixed rectangular shape.
Why don't animal cells have chloroplasts? C) presence of a cell wall. Animal cells do not contain chloroplasts.
Chloroplasts work to convert light energy of the sun into sugars that can be used by cells.
However, a certain slug (costasiella kuroshimae, or the leaf slug) does have chloroplasts in its body and uses this for photosynthesis. People would have to be out in the sun. Animal cells don't have chloroplasts because animals aren't green plants. Chloroplasts have originated as endosymbiotic cyanobacteria.