My Green Human

We are trying to make a human that can take in light and make its own energy. This experiment took a lot of thinking. I basically just compared a plant to a human and looked at what a plant has that a human doesn't. I came to the idea to give human plant like features. Down below are my ideas step by step.
Step 1

The first thing that I noticed that a human cant do is absorb light. I have to come up with a way for humans to absorb light. Plants use chlorophyll so maybe that is a start for us. Organelles uses energy from sun to make glucose from carbon and water. Some type of surgery would need to take place in order for this process to happen. I think the best thing would be to do the surgery on a lady that is pregnant because the baby is still forming. In the surgery we will have to insert chlorophyll into the cells to change them. This means that humans would have green or maybe a different color of skin do to the chlorophyll found in the cells. People usually have the problem of being in the sunlight to long and getting sunburned but that will no longer be a problem. On days where there is stormy weather, we can use artificial light. The biggest thing we need to do is put the chlorophyll in humans because without it there is not photosynthesis.


Step 2

The fact that we are going to be taking in more light and making more of our own energy, we will need more storage space. There will be way more glucose being produced. We would be in need of bigger vacuoles or more to store all the new things we are making.  Our respiration would have to change. Plants respire, but they breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen and us humans are opposite. If our respiration does not change then that means photosynthesis wont be able to take place. We need to bring in carbon dioxide in order to create glucose. Once energy is created from photosynthesis, we are going to have to find a place to store it. Like I mentioned earlier, we would need more vacuoles to store all the energy, so maybe we can store it in muscles or fat like our body already does.

Step 3

Plants go through respiration and metabolism but in a different way than us. This procedure would cause us to have less digestive enzymes due to digesting food less and needing to store more of it. Due to that, we would need more metabolic enzymes. Since we will have a great amount of energy, which means we will have to do probably twice of what we are doing now. Our energy can be stored until we need it though. If we have to much energy or feel to hyper, we can exercise more. While exercising and being active we go through aerobic respiration. The oxygen then breaks up glucose and gives the muscles more energy.

Overall:

This procedure is very dangerous. During the surgery you can run into several problems that you will have to handle a different way. Several surgeries may be needed to make this happen or to fix the problems that are caused by it. You're body may be affected by the change and cause serious sickness. The body may just totally shut down and cause you to pass away. This procedure is very interesting to keep looking into and keep thinking about. There may be more ways that are not as risky to make this process happen, but for now this procedure seems good to experiment. If things seem wrong or do not go right, more researching can be done to make it happen. Well lets make colored people!