This is a really interesting question, do you mean if the cell wall was made out of chloroplasts? I am not a plant biologist so I’ll try to answer from a bacterial point of view – chloroplasts contain phospholipids and the bacterial cell wall and membrane contains phospholipids too. So both types of cell wall would allow nutrients and waste products to travel in an out of the cell which is very important for the cell to survive. Structurally, I think the chloroplast cell wall would be too rigid to allow cells like bacteria to replicate (copy themselves to make more bacteria). Bacterial replication requires each cell to increase the size of their cell wall so the cell can split, making a new cell once all of the genetic (DNA) material has been copied. The benefit of having a chloroplast cell wall would be that it is another source of energy! In bacteria, the cells have to break down things like sugar (xylose, lactose, glucose) to make the energy (ATP) needed to survive and to make new cells.
There is an algae called Scenedesmus quadricauda, which was described in the 1960s which has its chloroplasts pressed into the cell wall. It’s possible that it might make it easier for the cells to photosynthesise.
The biological models and data I work with are not at that scale so I do not know directly. However, I do know that certain species of nudibranchs (sea slugs) which more or less do what you are asking. They “harvest” chloroplasts from algae and then incorporate them into there own bodies to make food for them from sunshine. Now _that_ is really cool!
Honestly I have no idea – and it seems the other scientists on here have provided some interesting answers and examples similar to what you are asking. Though I do know a plant biologist who works on the same floor as me, I’ll ask them when I see them next!
This is a really interesting question, do you mean if the cell wall was made out of chloroplasts? I am not a plant biologist so I’ll try to answer from a bacterial point of view – chloroplasts contain phospholipids and the bacterial cell wall and membrane contains phospholipids too. So both types of cell wall would allow nutrients and waste products to travel in an out of the cell which is very important for the cell to survive. Structurally, I think the chloroplast cell wall would be too rigid to allow cells like bacteria to replicate (copy themselves to make more bacteria). Bacterial replication requires each cell to increase the size of their cell wall so the cell can split, making a new cell once all of the genetic (DNA) material has been copied. The benefit of having a chloroplast cell wall would be that it is another source of energy! In bacteria, the cells have to break down things like sugar (xylose, lactose, glucose) to make the energy (ATP) needed to survive and to make new cells.
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There is an algae called Scenedesmus quadricauda, which was described in the 1960s which has its chloroplasts pressed into the cell wall. It’s possible that it might make it easier for the cells to photosynthesise.
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No idea. I work with computers. I sometimes have programs that grow and change over time, but that is nothing like chloroplasts in cell walls.
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The biological models and data I work with are not at that scale so I do not know directly. However, I do know that certain species of nudibranchs (sea slugs) which more or less do what you are asking. They “harvest” chloroplasts from algae and then incorporate them into there own bodies to make food for them from sunshine. Now _that_ is really cool!
1) http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/solarpow
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Honestly I have no idea – and it seems the other scientists on here have provided some interesting answers and examples similar to what you are asking. Though I do know a plant biologist who works on the same floor as me, I’ll ask them when I see them next!
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