Weird Animal Brain: Leaf Sheep Sea Slug
Remember photosynthesis: How plants capture energy from the sun. Chloroplasts (the green parts of leaves) are where the sun’s energy is captured.
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References:
Andrew, Elise. “These Cute Sea Slugs Are The Sheep Of The Sea.” IFLScience, IFLScience, 15 Aug. 2016, www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-cute-sea-slugs-are-sheep-sea/.
Händeler, Katharina, et al. “Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells – a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life.” Frontiers in Zoology, vol. 6, no. 1, 2009, p. 28., doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-28.
Kayleen Schreiber
Kayleen is obsessed with the brain. After majoring in neuroscience at Vanderbilt University, she went straight to a PhD program in neuroscience at the University of Iowa. She currently studies how our brains process speech. She measures electrical changes produced by the brain to understand how the gender of a person talking influences how we hear their speech. Outside the lab, she works to get others excited about science and occasionally plays the bassoon.
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