Which animal has chlorophyll?

Question

Which animal has chlorophyll?

Answer 1

A few protozoa like euglena are mixotrophic so have chlorophyll and engulf food but these are not animals they are in another Kingdom.

http://images.google.com/images?q=euglen...

However in the animal kingdom  chlorophyll is mostly found in photo-symbiotic relationships between animals and algae.

Sea slugs with algal symbionts have adapted to using algal mitochondria for energy. Jellyfish and sponges also do this with zoochlorellae.

http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cf...

http://ag.arizona.edu/azaqua/algaeclass/...

http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/reprint/186/...

http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps/191...

Sloths carry host specific algae growing on their hair for cryptic camouflage with the foliage.

http://animals.jrank.org/pages/2738/Thre...

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/Z...

Coral reefs are mutual plant animal symbiosis. There is a brown algae that lives with the animal inside the reef structure. They share resources and work together to build the coral shell they live in. The alga photosynthetically makes sugar and exchanges this for the animals waste CO2 and ammonia. In fact this animal may be completely dependent on the alga for carbon. These algae are zooxanthellae

http://www.cruising-png.com/26SYMBIO.HTM

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~delbeek/delb17.h...

http://activity.nmmba.gov.tw/2006MB_Exhi...

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/biol/units/s...

Answer 2

It appears some animals do!!

Try this -

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.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/p665...

Answer 3

plants only do thats is what makes them green lol

thats impossible for animals

Answer 4

only plants have clorophyll buddy.

Answer 5

the green monster

Answer 6

There are some sea slugs which have evolved to eat algae (these are plant micro organisms) and these plants have chlorophyll in them because that’s how they capture the energy from the sun and turn it into chemical energy in the form of glucose.  These sea slugs have evolved to graze on the algae.  They have little outpouchings called diverticula in their gut.  They can put the chloroplasts which are the green bits in the algal cells that contain the chlorophyll into these little sacks.  They extend all the way to the surface of the slug’s skin.  So the chloroplast which can capture the sun’s energy like a miniature solar panel ends up under the skin of the slug.  The slug also has some genes in its body which it stole from the algae donkey’s years ago so it can keep these things alive.  They can persist in the body of the slug for up to four months.  So the slug can effectively photosynthesise.