| It's very easy to tell the difference from plants and animals...right? It was announced last week that sea anemones are actually half animal, and half plant! Trace explains how something can be both plant and animal, and lists out a few other similar cases. Read More: Sea Anemone Is Both Animal and Plant http://news.discovery.com/animals/sea-anemone-animal-and-plant-in-one-140318.htm "Sea anemones are classified as being animals, but two new genetic studies have found that these water-dwelling creatures are technically half plant and half animal." Five Kingdom Classification System http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/invertebrates/kingdoms.html "Once upon a time, all living things were lumped together into two kingdoms, namely plants and animals (at least, that's how I learned it)." Classifying Plants http://www.infoplease.com/dk/science/encyclopedia/classifying-plants.html "Plants belong to the plant kingdom, one of the five kingdoms of living things." Sea Anemone is Genetically Half Animal, Half Plant http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/sea-anemone-is-genetically-half-animal-half-plant/ "Sea anemone shows a genomic landscape surprisingly similar to human genome, but also displays regulatory mechanisms similar to plants." Understanding Algae That Are Both 'Plant' And 'Animal' http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070619182508.htm "Nature is full of surprises. There are some algal species that can act both as 'plants' and as 'animals' at the same time." Zoologger: Unique life form is half plant, half animal http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21353-zoologger-unique-life-form-is-half-plant-half-animal.html#.UyoH661dVgh "Many animals transform themselves almost beyond recognition in the course of their lives." Studies on the Genus Mesodinium I: Ultrastructure and Description ofMesodinium chamaeleon n. sp., a Benthic Marine Species with Green or Red Chloroplasts http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2011.00593.x/abstract;jsessionid=5D12B23A67DC1374CB0B85B714C23C64.f01t03 "We provide here the description of a new marine species that harbors green or red chloroplasts." Watch More: Bionic Plants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydbka6_HPZ0 TestTube Wild Card http://testtube.com/dnews/dnews-452-time-perception?utm_campaign=DNWC&utm_medium=DNews&utm_source=YT Plants Can Hear You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApZ59MSty4o ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=dnewschannel DNews on Twitter http://twitter.com/dnews Anthony Carboni on Twitter http://twitter.com/acarboni Laci Green on Twitter http://twitter.com/gogreen18 Trace Dominguez on Twitter http://twitter.com/trace501 DNews on Facebook https |
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