Is this statement true or false? 'Animal cells have mitochondria;...

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Is this statement true or false? 'Animal cells have mitochondria; plant cells have chloroplasts.' Explain your answer, and describe the functions of these organelles.

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everyone. Let's take a look at this question together. A biologist was examining a cell under an electron microscope. He observed that the cell contained a nucleus mitochondria and chloroplasts. Cell under observation was probably what? So let's think back to what we know about the different types of cells and what we can find within those cells to figure out which of the following options here contains a nucleus, mitochondria and chloroplasts. So let's look at this one by one. So let's start off with a nucleus. We know that a plan cell has a nucleus, an animal cell has a nucleus. We know that a bacterial cell does not have a nucleus because it is a pro Cariou and the lack memory bound organelles. So automatically this one is incorrect and then we know a fungal cell has that nucleus. And then when it comes to mitochondria, we know that a plant cell has a an animal cell has it because they're both the eukaryotes. We know we've already crossed off answer choice C. And then we know a fungal cell also has that mitochondria. Lastly, let's look at chloroplasts, we know that plants have chloroplasts because that is where photosynthesis takes place. We know that animal cells do not have chloroplast because they don't partake in photosynthesis, that one is incorrect. And then fungal cells also do not have chloroplasts, meaning that answer. Choice A is the only correct answer here since plant cells contain all three nucleus mitochondria and chloroplasts. Hope you found this video to be helpful. Thank you and Goodbye

Is this statement true or false? 'Animal cells have mitochondria; plant cells have chloroplasts.' Explain your answer, and describe the functions of these organelles.

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