What animal can carry out the process of photosynthesis? Detailed answer

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What animal can carry out the process of photosynthesis?

Not only plants can carry out the process of photosynthesis. The sea slug Elysia chlorotica lives on glucose obtained from the chloroplasts of the algae Vaucheria litorea. The slug does this by assimilating these chloroplasts into the cells of the digestive tract. After that, the process of photosynthesis begins - the slug genome encodes the proteins necessary for chloroplasts for this process, and in return receives synthesized glucose.

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In several isolated lakes in Africa and America, cichlid species have been observed in which two populations have emerged in the course of parallel evolution: thin-lipped and thick-lipped. Fish with thick lips have adapted to extract food from the crevices of stones, enveloping them with their lips and sucking prey. Thin-lipped cichlids usually search for prey in open water. In the volcanic Lake Apoeque, in Nicaragua, cichlids appeared a little more than a hundred years ago from the nearby Lake Managua, but during this time they managed to separate on their own based on the thickness of their lips. Axel Meier of the University of Konstanz in Germany, who studies evolutionary changes in these fish with colleagues, jokingly calls the research program the "Angelina Jolie Project."

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