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5. Why
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plants perform photosynthesis, but most animals cannot?
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User Alex Munoz
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Because animals take in a different form of “food”. Plants use sunlight as “food” and convert it to energy. Animals eat those plants, or other animals, in order to gain energy themselves.

In short, plants are producers, and animals are consumers.
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