Both plant and animal cells can have mitochondria?
Biology · Middle School · Wed Jan 13 2021
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Answer: yes both cells have mitochondria.
Both plant and animal cells have mitochondria because they both carry on respiration. The main function of mitochondria as a cell organelle is to provide a site for respiration. Respiration involves production energy needed for other processes to occur.
Furthermore, it is no surprise that mitochondria are present in both plants and animals, implying major shared regulatory, bioenergetic, and chemical substrate pathways. Commonalities of energy processing in both plants and animals have become even stronger by the finding that chloroplast can be found in animal cells.