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Old 26-04-2003, 01:26 PM
Jie-san Laushi
 
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Default Complementarity of plants to animals; Chloroplasts is complimented

Sorry, Cereoid et al., but Archie is just so much fun to answer.
With my Trek carbon-fibre bicycle, I tried to make a human skeleton
system out of carbon. If it is impossible then it would impossible for
the reverse of trying to make a plant whose framework is no longer
carbon but that of calcium.


Arch, have you heard of diatoms? They are single-celled algae with shells of
silicon. Would you be interested in making a human skeleton system of silicon?

Chloroplasts. The inverse or reverse in animals (the compliment) would
be some organs or system of animals that makes or allows animals/bacteria
to move around.


Not sure I follow you, unless you are referring to the fact that chloroplasts
make food, while moving around is how animals ger food. But then there are
sponges -- animals which do not move around, but "absorb" food from the
surrounding water.

Then the inverse or reverse or
Compliment of chloroplasts is the flagella for certain type of bacteria


Then you would have to have multiple inverses/reverses for chloroplasts:
flagella for some, cilia for others, ameboid movement for others, and in
multicellular animals, muscular contractions. Of course, muscular contractions
are not organelles of a cell as chloroplasts and those others are. And then,
too, bacteria have no discrete organelles, as plant and animal cells have.

Did you study biology in grade school or high school? None of what I have said
is all that advanced!

Jie-san Laushi

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