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Part animal, part plant...


ItsNotGonnaBeAlright

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Swamp Thing is only a few genes away......

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/green-sea-slug/

Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug Elysia chlorotica already has a reputation for kidnapping the photosynthesizing organelles and some genes from algae. Now it turns out that the slug has acquired enough stolen goods to make an entire plant chemical-making pathway work inside an animal body, says Sidney K. Pierce of the University of South Florida in Tampa
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