If chloroplast is added to animal cell, is there any chance of photosynthesis?
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If you inject the chloroplast into an animal cell then it would not survive because of two reasons:
1. it would be treated as a foreign molecule and will be digested.
2. Chloroplast, like mitochondria was once a free-living bacteria which got incorporated into the eukaryotic cell and through evolution got selected (endo-symbiotic theory). Photosystem I & II, ATPase, the cytochrome complex and the RUBISCO enzyme all have subunits that are encoded by the nucleus as well as by the chloroplast genome. A chloroplast dumped in to an animal cell would eventually die off without support from the nuclear-encoded protein products that are essential to its functioning.
Without those nucleus-encoding genes chloroplast won't survive.
1. it would be treated as a foreign molecule and will be digested.
2. Chloroplast, like mitochondria was once a free-living bacteria which got incorporated into the eukaryotic cell and through evolution got selected (endo-symbiotic theory). Photosystem I & II, ATPase, the cytochrome complex and the RUBISCO enzyme all have subunits that are encoded by the nucleus as well as by the chloroplast genome. A chloroplast dumped in to an animal cell would eventually die off without support from the nuclear-encoded protein products that are essential to its functioning.
Without those nucleus-encoding genes chloroplast won't survive.
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If we add a chloroplast to animal cell there is no chance in photosynthesis because animals cannot absorb materials are required for photosynthesis
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