Why can't animals make food from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight, like plants do?

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Solution

Unlike plants, animals lack chloroplast in their body. So, animals can not prepare their food from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. Chloroplast is an organelle which is specifically present in green plants. It has a green coloured pigment called chlorophyll. This chlorophyll traps the sunlight and enables plants to make food, which animals can not.

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