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291 – Kleptoplasty and a Solar-Powered Animal
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:34:20
Publish Date: 2021-05-08 05:00:52
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A solar-powered animal?  There are species of sea slugs that consume algae, then integrate the chloroplasts into their own digestive cells.  There they function to fix carbon and essentially power the organism.  This phenomenon is [...]

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