Tag: chloroplast
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This sea slug steals chloroplasts and keeps them fresh
In biology class back in high school, I learned that plants do photosynthesis and animals don’t. But for some years now, researchers have been amazed by an exception to this rule: sea slugs that contain chloroplasts, the sub-cellular plant compartments where photosynthesis takes place. Are animals on the path to become photosynthetic?… Read more
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In the Beginning there was…
What you think happened in the beginning might depend a bit on your perspective.
In the beginning, many would say, there was the Big Bang.
But, in case the title of our new blog hasn’t given it away, we’re not physicists, and we’re much more interested in the beginning of the planet of the plants.
So let’s jump forward about 12 billion years shall we?
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