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Do animals have chloroplasts?

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No, animal cells do not have chloroplasts in them. Only plant cells do. The only thing that would make it a little bit different is with animal like algae, which might contain some chloroplasts, but other than that, it is unlikely. read more

Animal cells do not have chloroplasts. Edit: Ben has pointed out a unique exception as his answer, where an animal acquires chloroplasts from a plant source rather than directly inheriting them. And, as I have pointed out below, this is exactly how cells have acquired chloroplasts in the past, through secondary endosymbiosis. read more

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