First evidence for photosynthesis in insects
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#3Assuming the photosynthetic aphid hypothesis this makes for an interesting positive feedback loop with analogies in economics - when energy levels fall below a critical threshold the aphids are unable to synthesise the "metabolically expensive" cartenoids.
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#5Just curious: why isn't the making of vitamin D by the human skin called photosynthesis?
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#6Just curious: why isn't the making of vitamin D by the human skin called photosynthesis?
Photosynthesis is predominantly powered by red and blue visible light. The manufacture of Vitamin D in our skin is triggered by UV. Also in humans Vitamin D is not an energy source, unlike the sugars commonly produced by photosynthesis in plants.
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#9This is not unprecedented in animals, green sea slugs are capable of making use of the chloroplasts in the algae they eat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica
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15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
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