{"id":89191,"date":"2019-04-03T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-discover-first-organism-with-chlorophyll-genes-that-doesnt-photosynthesize"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:24:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:24:38","slug":"scientists-discover-first-organism-with-chlorophyll-genes-that-doesnt-photosynthesize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-discover-first-organism-with-chlorophyll-genes-that-doesnt-photosynthesize","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover first organism with chlorophyll genes that doesn\u2019t photosynthesize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-first-organism-with-chlorophyll-genes-that-doesnt-photosynthesize.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time scientists have found an organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not engage in photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>The peculiar organism is dubbed \u2018corallicolid\u2019 because it is found in 70 per cent of corals around the world and may provide clues as to how to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/coral+reefs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">coral reefs<\/a> in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the second most abundant cohabitant of coral on the planet and it hasn\u2019t been seen until now,\u201d says Patrick Keeling, a University of British Columbia botanist and senior researcher overseeing the study published in <i>Nature<\/i>. \u201cThis organism poses completely new biochemical questions. It looks like a parasite, and it\u2019s definitely not photosynthetic. But it still makes chlorophyll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-scientists-chlorophyll-genes-doesnt-photosynthesize.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;04-scientists-chlorophyll-gen...esize.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time scientists have found an organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not engage in photosynthesis. The peculiar organism is dubbed \u2018corallicolid\u2019 because it is found in 70 per cent of corals around the world and may provide clues as to how to protect coral reefs in the future. \u201cThis is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}