The team has named these sacs “kleptosomes.” These membrane-bound compartments protect the chloroplasts and keep them ...

Like higher plants, algae use photosynthesis to generate energy from sunlight and carbon dioxide. In green algae like closterium, photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplast which is easily visible as a ...

The cells of algae, like those of plants, contain small compartments called chloroplasts that are its engines of photosynthesis. As the Elysia munches on algae, it takes their chloroplasts into ...

They contained chloroplasts taken from the algae, ... Green sea slug makes chlorophyll like a plant. Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter.

Recent research from Japan has demonstrated that chloroplasts from algae can be integrated into hamster cells, allowing these cells to perform photosynthesis. Previously, it was believed that the ...

The sea slug Elysia chlorotica is as brilliant green as a new leaf. And in a very leaf-like and un-slug-like way, ... The slug could have stolen DNA as well as chloroplasts from the algae, ...

How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time 'feeding' on sunlight, like a plant, is clarified in a recent study. The authors present the first direct evidence that the ...

Scientists offer first definitive proof of bacteria-feeding behavior in green algae. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 15, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 05 / 130523143741.htm ...

SEATTLE — It’s easy being green for a sea slug that has stolen enough genes to become the first animal shown to make chlorophyll like a plant. Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia ...

Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously thought that ...

How a brilliant-green sea slug manages to live for months at a time 'feeding' on sunlight, like a plant, is clarified in a recent study published in The Biological Bulletin.

Like true algae, however, they contain chloroplasts that turn light into energy. The bacteria colonies often look the same as nontoxic green algae. Cyanobacteria grow naturally in all water body ...