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Why do chloroplasts appear only in plant cells and lysosomes appear only in animal cells?

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Both animal and plant cells have mitochondria, but only plant cells have chloroplasts. ... Because animals get sugar from the food they eat, they do not need chloroplasts: just mitochondria.

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