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01-14-2010, 08:02 PM
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Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...reen-sea-slug/
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Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica already has a reputation for kidnapping the photosynthesizing organelles and some genes from algae. Now it turns out that the slug has acquired enough stolen goods to make an entire plant chemical-making pathway work inside an animal body, says Sidney K. Pierce of the University of South Florida in Tampa.
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.
“This could be a fusion of a plant and an animal — that’s just cool,” said invertebrate zoologist John Zardus of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C.
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01-14-2010, 08:29 PM
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That is pretty damn cool.
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01-14-2010, 09:10 PM
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Oddly enough, I think one of my exes used the very same insult on me...
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01-15-2010, 03:08 AM
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Saya, thanks. That is excellent!
I forwarded the story and link by email on to everyone I know. That is just too freakin' cool!
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01-15-2010, 03:18 AM
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Anyone up for human genetic engineering? I want to see a cauliflour growing out of someone's head.`
Edit: On another note, am I the only one who is reminded of pokemon`?
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01-21-2010, 09:28 PM
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Bulba bulba bulba bulba bulba!
Elysia chlorotica use Razor Leaf!
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01-22-2010, 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Still Jack
Anyone up for human genetic engineering? I want to see a cauliflour growing out of someone's head.`
Edit: On another note, am I the only one who is reminded of pokemon`?
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I've seen people with caulifloured ears so I dont think that would be such a good idea.
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01-25-2010, 09:17 AM
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Maybe we could genetically engineer green people who don't have to eat?
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01-27-2010, 04:35 PM
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That reminds me, I had to watch an episode of Wifeswap for sociology and one of the women was trying to prove that people could get all of the nutrition from the sun, one of the people in her "new family" made the very observant comment that if that were possible he was sure that the starving Africans would have figured it out by now. It made me giggle.
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01-28-2010, 06:52 AM
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OMG...I think it's freakin adorable....I want to hug it....
Not to mention that is just....awesome.....
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