HALF PLANT HALF SLUG READY TO EAT YOUR BRAINS!

I want the ability to photosynthesize light so that I don't have to eat. hmph.

*jealously folds arms
 
I would go out more if I could do photosynthesis, but sigh... I can't...
 
He's already been doing it.

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I was reading the article, and what's even more interesting than being able to do photosynthesis, is that they can use the DNA/genes from the algae they have eaten. Imagine eating some pork and growing a pigtail.
 
The Green Slug: Wanted for 60 billion double-dollars.
 
i bet you could eat the entire slug and you'd have a complete and disgusting meal!
 
This just in: Green slug is the most advanced creature in the universe.


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Au-heppa said:
I was reading the article, and what's even more interesting than being able to do photosynthesis, is that they can use the DNA/genes from the algae they have eaten. Imagine eating some pork and growing a pigtail.
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I hope that happens, ya fat ****in ****s
 
What a cheesy article. Some very unclear and misleading sentences there too.

Still, kind cool that a sea slug has chloroplasts etc possibly by the same mechanism that plants did and both kingdoms got mitochondria.
 
VirusType2 said:
This just in: Green slug is the most advanced creature in the universe.


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biologically speaking you are absolutely right...that thing just has to sit there to live...no membership to sports clubs or late night fast food runs.

there is no chance that we won't (at some point) be able to reverse engineer their DNA and adaptive abilities and apply this to ourselves...yet texans will still be fat.
 
So if I eat it, I'll get the power of a plant and a slug!
 
I wonder how accurate the article is as to what it's actually doing. Is it really stitching the plant's DNA with it's own or does it has a system where it can absorb the plantlife into its system but with the plant cells still fully seperate from the animal cells? (the same way there are loads of different non-human bacteria involved in the digestion process).
 
ríomhaire said:
I wonder how accurate the article is as to what it's actually doing. Is it really stitching the plant's DNA with it's own or does it has a system where it can absorb the plantlife into its system but with the plant cells still fully seperate from the animal cells? (the same way there are loads of different non-human bacteria involved in the digestion process).
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You make a good point. They might have just taken the whole damn slug, blended it, and centrifuged it and found chlorophyll-producing cells :O Well I hope they did more than that but still.
 
10 bucks says that evolution will eventually find that, since there's no need to hunt or find food, mobility will be lost and it will turn into a coral-like creature...
 
ríomhaire said:
I wonder how accurate the article is as to what it's actually doing. Is it really stitching the plant's DNA with it's own or does it has a system where it can absorb the plantlife into its system but with the plant cells still fully seperate from the animal cells? (the same way there are loads of different non-human bacteria involved in the digestion process).
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Going by this older paper by the same guy they use chloroplasts they take from the algae for many of the required proteins by algal nuclear DNA or RNA of the others is not present in the sea slug.
Going by the press report of the newest findings it seems there's a case of lateral gene transfer whereby algal genes have become incorporated into the slug's genome, possibly by transposons, a retrovirus or some other mechanism. Horizontal gene transfer isn't unheard of, but this would be an unusual example in the degree of completeness shown in allowing this biochemical pathway to function.
 
I don't understand what you mean by horizontal gene transfer? Is that gene transfer between two living things as opposed to reproduction?
 
It's transfer of genes between two different living members of the same species or between two different species.
It's been found to happen in a couple of different ways. For example RNA retroviruses work by integrating DNA copies of their RNA 'genome' into their hosts DNA genome. They then create RNA copies of this to create more virus. Sometimes bits of RNA containing genetic information from their host can end up in the virus too, which can then be passed on to a new host and inserted into their genome.
This DNA ends up in the germ line of the new host it can be preserved to succeeding generations, though if this gene or gene fragment isn't useful it will be lost due to selective pressure.
It's a little more complicated than that but basically that's one way genes can be transferred from one species to another.
 
We could, but General Ross tends to go a bit apeshit when you do that :)
 
What a heart-warming, feel-good Disney summer hit sorta' moment you guys had there.
 
This is quite interesting. I hang around the docks a lot and I know most of the guys who worked there, so it surprised me when, just yesterday, I saw one of the dockers playing catch on Wharf 5. The reason it surprised me was because he's a veteran who lost the use of his hands in the first Gulf War. When I asked him he said he'd been bitten by one of these green sea slugs while unloading a crate a few days back. When he woke up the next morning he found there was feeling in his fingers for the first time in years, and over the next few days their use returned. I might ask him if he still has that sea slug. The possibilities could be tremendous.
 
Sulkdodds said:
This is quite interesting. I hang around the docks a lot and I know most of the guys who worked there, so it surprised me when, just yesterday, I saw one of the dockers playing catch on Wharf 5. The reason it surprised me was because he's a veteran who lost the use of his hands in the first Gulf War. When I asked him he said he'd been bitten by one of these green sea slugs while unloading a crate a few days back. When he woke up the next morning he found there was feeling in his fingers for the first time in years, and over the next few days their use returned. I might ask him if he still has that sea slug. The possibilities could be tremendous.
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Sulkdodds said:
This is quite interesting. I hang around the docks a lot and I know most of the guys who worked there, so it surprised me when, just yesterday, I saw one of the dockers playing catch on Wharf 5. The reason it surprised me was because he's a veteran who lost the use of his hands in the first Gulf War. When I asked him he said he'd been bitten by one of these green sea slugs while unloading a crate a few days back. When he woke up the next morning he found there was feeling in his fingers for the first time in years, and over the next few days their use returned. I might ask him if he still has that sea slug. The possibilities could be tremendous.
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