What if Chlorophyll is injected with the required enzymes in our body? Can we make our own food as plants?

Answer 1

No.

First off chlorphyll is just a tiny part of an incredibly complex system of pigments and enzymes needed to harvest light. It is really akin to asking whether you could glue a carburettor to the side of a cardborad box and turn it into an airplane.

A more plausible route would be to implant entire chlorplasts into an animal cell line. That has potential, but only for narrow range of animals.

See, the thing about chloroplasts is they need light to work. And the thing about most animals is that they have evolved pigments to stop light penetrating their cells. The two conditions are mutually exclsuive. You could implant or the chlorplasts you like into a human and they won't do anything because they will be permanently in the dark.

With transparent animals like jellyfish or glass fish or similar you probably could achieve some level of autotrophic activity.

In the case of a highly active animal like a human the payoff wouldn't be worth the cost. Chlorplasts require energy to build and maintain and active animals can't afford to laze around int he sun all day. That's why the ancestors of animals abandoned their chlorophyll in the first place (did you know that all animals are descended from photosyntheic organisms?)

But with slow moving animals like jellyfish it becomes more plausible. Some jellyfish already utilise symbiotic algae to harvest sunlight, so for those species the addition of inherent chloroplasts could be a major boon.

Answer 2

I certainly don't think so. I think our bodies cannot accept it. If the right conditions;- enzymes, skin color etc where right, there would still be a major problem. Chlorophyll is helpful only as far as utilising carbon dioxide is concerned. Hence food stuffs generated can only be of carbohydrate nature (use of C, H and O). A human body needs minerals and other elements too. The human body thrives best when fed through the digestive system. Other systems can sustain life but without its "vibrancy".

Answer 3

Plants, like humans, require an energy source to process food into usable energy. For humans, we derive our energy from the food we consume, but for plants, they get energy from the sun. Since humans do not have the appropriate cells that would receive the sunlight and process it into energy, having chlorophyll in our systems would not do us any good.

Answer 4

no. the only way for you to have the same characteristics as a plant is to be born a plant. chlorophyll will just be digested by your body and wasted. you cannot make sugar from sunlight. go to the store and buy some sugar its a lot easier that way.

Answer 5

No, it is impossible... Cholorphyll will be degraded in our body or will be rejected by our immuno system... If you think about transfer a certain plant DNA fragment into our body, which expresses Chlorophyll, we may photosynthesis. However, we will no longer be human - another kind of monster?

Answer 6

i agree with leviter - u would need more than just a cocktail of chlorophyl and enzymes inside yourself, you also need the structures of the chloroplast. like a factory works only when everything is in proper place, a functional complex structure and not scattered at random. so i you want to photosynthetize, i suggets you find some suitable symbionts and let them grow on your body. they would need sunlight so u may also forget about keeping them inside your body. yeah, green skin would be so sexy...

Answer 7

Because the plant are autotrophs, they have own capacity to prepare self food, other hands we are hetrotrophs, which depends on others for preparing food that why if injected chlorophyll in our body we are not able to prepare our food.

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Answer 8

yes good thinking but then u'll be bathing in the sun and doing nothing !!! i think you 'll hve to spend more time on siting than anything else! but you are right there are some loower level animals(plants??) which can move and take in a meal as well as have chlorophill in the millons years in future there will be species for sure!!

Answer 9

No the results would be obvious brain damage.

Answer 10

chlorophyll=green=Hulk,erm,i don think so