Combining plants and animals

[Architectonic]

Does anyone have any links or info on this subject.

I'm specifically refering to adding a cholroplast and related biological systems to animals to enable the process of photosynthesis.

I'm thinking of something a bit more advanced than protoctista.

[Kotuku]

...Not entirely sure if this is what you mean...
but there are species of Cnidaria (Anemones & Jellyfish) that have symbiotic algae)...

Heres one of the links.... Cnidaria + algae symbiosis (http://ag.arizona.edu/azaqua/algaeclass/symbios.htm)

[Lee]

Combining plants and animals = eating?

[Elro]

Bovine + Grass = Cannibal Cow

Unfortunately this is the only thing I can think of on this subject. (And it won't go away, argh.) Interesting idea, though.

[Geoff]

Well, the reverse version...

Chinese Scientists Transplant Fish Genes into Beet
04/05

HUHHOT (April 5) XINHUA - Chinese scientists have succeeded in transplanting fish genes into beets. The transgenic beet seedlings can survive temperatures of six to 6.5 degrees below zero, 2.5 times that of non-transgenic beet.The sowing period of the beet can come ten to 15 days earlier and its harvesting period can be extended by ten to 15 days.

The gene came from the anti-frost protein gene of an Arctic fish imported to Mongolia from Germany in 1992. Li Tianran, a professor of the Biology Department, and Zhang Jianfeng, a graduate student under Li, were put in charge of the research.

"It is the first time in the world that animal gene was transplanted into the beet," Tian Bo, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said.

"It is of great significance for the anti-frost research for other crops," he said.

[Geoff]

Does anyone have any links or info on this subject.

I'm specifically refering to adding a cholroplast and related biological systems to animals to enable the process of photosynthesis.

I'm thinking of something a bit more advanced than protoctista.

Photosynthesis is a hugely low energy producing technique. It might fuel plants that expend minimal amounts of energy, but little use to, say, a mammal.

-Geoff

[Lee]

Photosynthesis is a hugely low energy producing technique. It might fuel plants that expend minimal amounts of energy, but little use to, say, a mammal.

-Geoff
As I said, we should let the plant do all the long hard graft of photosynthesizing, we can then simply eat the thing.

Also when you begin getting down to the level of individual genes the whole plant/animal distinction begins to blur somewhat.

[misutii]

i want to see what will happen if they combine a fly with a venus fly trap .........

[mgb]

I was thinking a dog with leaves instead of hair when I saw this thread...dare to dream I guess.

[j4ck]

leaves+dog=log?

[Ka.avik]

leaves+dog=log?
get the paper for me, would you Deaves?

[jimkopelli]

Or a milkable tree... saves the work of letting it out to pasture, and then rounding it back up again...

[Star Cannon]

Um, why do something that's already been done?

The protists are animal/plantish enough.

[Sackanaka]

Um, why do something that's already been done?
Because reinventing wheels has been a great pasttime of INTPs!
(There was a thread on it before. just forgot where and too lazy.)

[Architectonic]

Um, why do something that's already been done?

The protists are animal/plantish enough.

They aren't animal/plantish enough for me. :ph34r: