Have you ever heard of before all the lamb paper Learn organism solar-powered

Lamb is not like any of the sheep that we see on land because it lives in the ocean and a length of only 3 mm

Lamb paper is of mollusks that live in the ocean, the scientific name is Costasiella kuroshimae (I think the lamb easier!), This amazing object features that absorbs material chloroplasts resulting from the process of photosynthesis to generate energy for himself (yes, such as algae!) .

J, which is one of the rare animals that have the ability to carry out photosynthesis, as plants!

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Fed lamb paper on marine algae just as the sheep that we know Baltgve on herbs, while doing so, the sheep paper absorbing material chloroplasts of algae healthy and keep it in his body, allowing him to take advantage of them for a brief period in order to power generation through the process of photosynthesis, quite as plants. This process is called kleptoplasty and means "green Balassanat coexistence".

This amazing type of marine animals spread at sea salt near Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, it is worth mentioning that the Lamb paper is not the only animal that is the process of photosynthesis, there are several species of marine mollusks, which has this ability, for example, there mollusk nautical live off the east coast object North America is capable of doing the process of photosynthesis called Alesia, which is slightly larger in size than the lamb paper (a length of 30 mm), but size is not the only area that Alesia outperform where the sheep paper, while the latter can carry out photosynthesis for a period of Soon only, the Alesia has the same genes possessed by algae within the nuclear swollen allowing him to make the process of photosynthesis and whenever he pleases.

Says scientist Sidney Pierce competent study of this phenomenon that Alesia uses his mouth to absorb nutrients from algae, including the chloroplasts that help him in carrying out the process of photosynthesis, and then are genes fix this chloroplasts encoded on the genome of Alesia, while it will be on the that the next generation gets the chloroplasts of algae again, only to preserve the genes of chloroplasts are already present on the genes from these animals molluscs.

For maximum sunlight usually find these animals in the shallow water of the marshes and tidal areas, ponds, streams and shallow.

So get out of this article is two lessons are important:

- That photosynthesis does not happen only in plants, but also occurs in animals!

- And that the planet will not stop Adhahna day after day!