Chlorophyll

[cheungcheung]

Is that true only leaves have chlorophyll?

Do stems or other animals have c lorophyll?

[admiral_ju00]

Is that true only leaves have chlorophyll?

Do stems or other animals have c lorophyll?

 

plant cells have chlorophyll and chloroplasts. and no, anymal cells don't have any of the above because they don't do photosynthesis.

[cheungcheung]

Thank you, now I recognised that stems have chlorophyll.

[Skye]

Remember that lots of bacteria and algae also have chlorophyll.

[aommaster]

Usually, any green parts of plants signify that there is chlorophyll in in!

[Bryn]

and some protocista have chlorophyll

[MulderMan]

in the future do you think its possible to geneticaly engeneer aminal cells to have chloroplasts?

[Skye]

Probably...but why?

[admiral_ju00]

Probably...but why?

 

yeah, that's what i'd like to know as well.

[MulderMan]

erm curious? lol, well i just got up so that might explain alot...

[Dave]

Easy way of making starch?

[MulderMan]

well in plants glucose is stores as starch right? and in humans when the glucose hasnt been burnt off it turns into fat cells right?

[Dave]

Sounds right, I haven't done Biology since GCSE though

[MulderMan]

strangely enought im just starting gcse biology , and im the only one that seems to be excited.

[Dave]

It's a really good subject, as long as you don't have really bad teachers (like I did).

[MulderMan]

yes biology seems like a really interesting subject, but normally im interested in chem/physics, and so far in school weve only done things like dissection of pigs hart and lungs (hated the lungs - they smelled like they were decomposing).

[Dave]

Lovely.

 

Things like that made me stick to maths

[admiral_ju00]

well, i'm open to new ideas as long as they are within the bounds of science, so let's explore this idea a bit further.

 

chlorophyl is what gives the plants and other single celled organisms their distints green hues. also, when you said what you did in post #7, were you thinking of :only for the looks or fully functional things?

 

if only for the looks, then (assuming this is possible and worthy) you'll have animals with green or greenish skin or a gradation between the mixing reds and blues together.

 

if you were thinking of having fully functional chlorophyls and chloroplasts then it would mean a major reconstruction of the animal cells as we now know it. all or most of the cells will have to be completely reconstructed as there are things and organnels that animal cells have but not plants and vise-versa.

 

which also mean that in addition to a normal(animal) cell respiration it will also perform photosynthetic(photon based) respiration.

 

that means these new cells must be able to in addition to the normal (animal) cell functions be able to take in the sun light, convert it to chemicals that stimulate chloroplasts, etc. then it must also take in the CO2 and water(and that would mean that each cell store a descent amount of water(which mean that each cell may be much bigger and more rigidly structured, etc) in order to be able to manufacture sugar and then it must somehow release the waiste(in this case the O2), etc.

 

so in the end, you'll and up with an animal that can get nutrients not only from eating but also from photons, it'll have a green skin (or any other possible gradation of mixing the warm and cool colours). then it will not only take in O2 for it's regular respiration(in this case breathing) but also CO2 and release both CO2 and O2 as waiste byproducts......

 

in the end, what do you end up and what will this be classifyed is a very good question

 

hmmm

[admiral_ju00]

Lovely.

 

Things like that made me stick to maths

 

i have no love of math and probably will never understand your passion or commitment to mathematics or what attracts you to it, but that's for a whole new debate/discussion

[Skye]

Euglena are pretty cool. Chloroplasts, ingesting food, a little eye, flagellum, all in one cell!

 

http://staff.jccc.net/pdecell/protista/euglena.html

[Dave]

It's just for the most part I hate having to disect things and play around with organs - it's really not my type of thing

[MulderMan]

i only like doing it if it DIED and was not killed, and it crosses the line with cats but thats banned in england i think.

[ed84c]

it may intrest you that chlor is green in latin like chlorine or chlorophyll, and chlorophyll doesnt contain chlorine like i thought it did once!