FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
MICROORGANISMS IN FOOD
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The Sun
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Dead log
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plants
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other slugs
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Detailed explanation-1: -Several sacoglossan sea slugs can harvest energy from the sun’s rays and, using only the contents of their cells, turn it into chemical packages of food. In other words, they photosynthesize-arguably the plantiest thing that earthly plants and algae do.
Detailed explanation-2: -Juvenile sea slugs eat the nontoxic brown alga Vaucheria litorea and become photosynthetic – or solar-powered – after stealing millions of algal plastids, which are like tiny solar panels, and storing them in their gut lining, according to the study published online in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Detailed explanation-3: -The sea slug Elysia timida is capable of stealing chloroplasts from its algal prey (Figure 1). Once stolen, the chloroplasts, now termed kleptoplasts, remain functional inside the slug’s cells for several weeks, essentially creating a photosynthetic slug.