Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
SEATTLE — It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant…
The slugs can manufacture the most common form of chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight, Pierce reported January 7 at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Pierce used a radioactive tracer to show that the slugs were making the pigment, called chlorophyll a, themselves and not simply relying on chlorophyll reserves stolen from the algae the slugs dine on.
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GOTTA CATCH EM ALLLLLLL
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Evolution. hunsonisgroovy:
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Sharing genes and organelles across biological kingdoms is pretty cool. If it is true, I bet there are some jaw-dropping...
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me is fascinated.
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THIS SHIT IS SO AWESOME. WHAT, I WANT ONE.
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Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant...I wonder what kind of MPG this hybrid gets in...
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AAAAAAAAARGH. WHAT’S NEXT? And now your daily weird science.
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this…this is cool.
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coolest looking slug. ever.
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Woah. I love science.hunsonisgroovy:
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Woah. Pwede pala yun?...animal, part plant. Amaaazzzing.
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