No Joke: Half animal and half plant

I always thought corals were plants but they're animals - not plants.
 
Hmm... this reminds me of a character from Farscape... Zhaan. She's a naked female that's blue, but isn't really an animal, but a plant.
 
VamPyroX said:
Hmm... this reminds me of a character from Farscape... Zhaan. She's a naked female that's blue, but isn't really an animal, but a plant.
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Naked? Dang, I wish! lol Susan Hey was once my lover.
jk
At least she was my screenshot. :doh:
 
Beowulf said:
Naked? Dang, I wish! lol Susan Hey was once my lover.
jk
At least she was my screenshot. :doh:
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Don't you mean Virginia Hey? :)

I was surprised that she left the series. I looked her up and found out that she left the show cuz she was getting sick from the blue paint on her body. (Even when she switched to body suits and painted just her hands/face, she still got sick.)




Anyways, back to the topic of animal/plant... that's something that could be applied to humans. If they were half plant, they could survive longer just by getting sunlight.

But then again, they could probably suffer more if they didn't get enough water... unless their DNA were part-cactus! ;)
 
Yup, Vamp. Viriginia Hey. Beware the woman scorned. :cry:
 
Funny. I used to date a marine biologist/ scuba instructor who mentioned this. He said that it was not really a half plant and a half animal. It's just a symbolic relationship. It happens all the time.
 
Pretty funky looking eh?

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This green slug, which is part animal and part plant, produces its own
chlorophyll and so can carry out photosynthesis, turning sunlight into
energy, scientists have found.

Source:http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/13/half-plant-half-animal-really/?test=faces
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Look like Snail without shell.

This sea slugs live in salt marshes.
Is this slug senitive to salt????
How come... this sea slug does not hurt by salt??

Probably part of camouflage like Octopus.
 
Barbaro said:
Funny. I used to date a marine biologist/ scuba instructor who mentioned this. He said that it was not really a half plant and a half animal. It's just a symbolic relationship. It happens all the time.
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You mean symbiotic?
 
Dixie said:
I believe so. If I recall correctly, symbiotic means an organism functions both like a plant and animal.
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Tousi said:
You mean symbiotic?
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I apologize for the slow reply. Right, it is symbiotic. I am told symbiotic relationships mean two organisms living together in some way. He also said that there are three different types of symbiotic relationship like parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.

Parasitism is common where an organism lives off its host without giving anything in return.

Mutualism is where both organisms benefit. In the article, he believes that it may be mutualism. He said that anemones and coral do this a lot. They have algae living in their tissues that photosynthesize and make food for themselves just like a plant. Then the excess is used by it's host. The algae gets a safe place to live and grow and the anemone gets food from the algae they both benefit.

Termites are similar. They can eat wood because of microorganisms living in their gut.

Commensalism is where one benefits while the other is unaffected. For example, a barnacle living on a whale. The barnacle gets a free ride; the whale doesn't care if it's there or not.
 
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