Biology 2581B Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Agrobacterium, Luminescence, Autofluorescence
10 Apr 2017
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They found in the slugs few favored species of vaucheria algae, the slug does not have to eat again for the rest of its life. Marine slugs are green because they do photosynthesis: marine snail is eating a chloroplast + keeps it. It can run them it is photosynthetically active. This marine snail elysia chlorotica (cid:498)kidnaps(cid:499) chloroplast by eating algae (cid:498)scientists have shown that once a young slug has slurped its first chloroplast meal from one of its has to do is sunbathe. (cid:499) Maybe we will turn green at one point can use the energy derived from chloroplast we ate at one. The symbiotic chloroplasts are translationally active functional algal genes have been transferred into the slug genome: genes can be transcribed and translated, these marine slugs can run these chloroplasts on their own, similarly to what happens in plants. Evolution on the go: things are still changing.
