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SCIENCE: Why would it be difficult for plant and animal cells to make cell energy if there wasn’t sunlight?

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Both animal and plant cells have mitochondria, but only plant cells have chloroplasts. Plants don't get their sugar from eating food, so they need to make sugar from sunlight. ... Because animals get sugar from the food they eat, they do not need chloroplasts: just mitochondria.

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