You are what you eat
Strayer University
Author Note

Abstract
As a child when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up the first thing that I would say was, ‘a biologist’ not because it was the only big word that I knew at 8 years old it was because I knew that biologist got to study the very thing that I loved. ‘Life’ and ‘nature’.
You are what you eat
Imagine if you became the very thing that you ate. If your cells mutated into the cells of the very thing that you consumed. I would say that there would be a lot half-human half-beast walking around, if not already.
THE SEA SLUG THAT BECAME A PLANT
In a recent article published Sidney K. Pierce she shows her findings of how the emerald green sea slug lives months at a time by feeding on the sunlight, similar to a plant, (Photosynthesis) the article clarifies how the sea slug (Elysia chlorotica) absorbs the genes of the algae (Vaucheria litorea) that it eats, thus turning the slug into the very algae that it eats.
The slug (Elysia chlorotica) manages to live for months by utilizing photosynthesis. To do this the slug stores the chloroplasts from the algae that it feeds on and by doing so, initiates a gene transfer; from one multicellular species to another. A new find for scientist. If not amazing enough that the slug can steal and store the chloroplast from the food that it eats it even goes as far as boosting the usefulness of the chloroplast 10 times longer than the algae that it adsorbed it from could have.
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