You have discovered a new organism. You know that it is either a plant or an animal. What characteristics could help you classify the organism?
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Mesodinium chamaeleon, a strange green creature found in Denmark that lives at the bottom of the sea, is causing researchers to rethink traditional ways of classifying living organisms.Mesodinium chamaeleon is causing researchers to rethink traditional ways of classifying living organisms
Mesodinium chamaeleon has characteristics of both animals and plants
While some animals look like plants, others are animals that turn into plants, or vice versa
Mesodinium chamaeleon, a strange green creature found in Denmark that lives at the bottom of the sea, is causing researchers to rethink traditional ways of classifying living organisms.Traditionally, there is a difference between animals and plants:
- Animals cannot produce their own energy and must eat other animals or plants to get energy for their survival.
- Plants use photosynthesis to get energy from the sun for their survival. Chlorophyll is the green pigment in plant cells that enables photosynthesis to happen, and is one of the defining traits of plants.
Mesodinium chamaeleon does both. Using its thousands of hair strands, it moves rapidly through water, finding plants to eat — like an animal. And when it eats the plant, it becomes a 'plant'; by keeping the chlorophyll granules active in its stomach, Mesodinium chamaeleon uses the plant's ability to convert sunlight into energy.
This photosynthesis makes Mesodinium chamaeleon a plant. After a while, it digests the plant and then turns back into an animal, and then goes hunting for a new plant to consume.
Several living organisms are neither animals nor plants defy traditional ways of classification