Sea Slugs are about to get more interesting

There has been a surprising appearance of oridinary sea slugs transforming into half plant. A green sea slug seems to be half-animal and half-plant. It is the first creature to come across that also has the ability produces chlorophyll. Apparently, the slugs have taken the genes that allow this to happen from all the algae that they consume. With these genes they can perform photosynthesis. Surprisingly these unique slugs can survive without food as long as they get their need of sunlight, which is also true for plants. These animal-plants thrive in salt marshes of Canada and New England. The sea slugs also pass these genes onto the next generation so that when they reproduce their babies are able to produce chlorophyll as well. Still, they can't carry out photosynthesis without the amount of algae necessary to do so. The achievement of these slugs is very astonishing. I think that this is very fascinating because I never knew that there would ever be such thing as a half-plant and half-animal. The discovery of these intriguing slugs being able to be both an an animal and a plant is truley breath-taking. Before these sea slugs, there were seperate animals and plants, but now scientists have found out about a combination of the two. They might have got this ability from an ancestor that may have been able to do this same thing earlier. This is a very amazing accomplishment that they would be able to produce chlorophyll. From these slugs, these genes could pass on through evolution to other creatures along with the slugs. They might even be able to be half animal and plant without even eating anything one day. It reminds me of the saying "We are what we eat" since this fits in very well into what the sea slugs do. It is surprising that the sea slugs can steal the plants way of life by using the chloroplasts from the algae that they eat. Knowing what these creatures have the ability to perform is unbelievable considering very few creatures have the ability to do what these slugs do. That is what makes these sea slugs very interesting.

Source:
http://www.livescience.com/animals/green-slug-animal-plant-100112.html