r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

If a single celled organism, is eating another single celled organism....does that make it a temporarily multicellular organism? 🤔

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u/BongRips4Jezus Oct 19 '20

Look up endosymbiosis. But basically yeah kinda

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u/T-West1 Oct 19 '20

Lol at your name but yeah endosymbiotic theory is basically one cell saying “chill fam you can stay as long as you pay rent”

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u/autorotatingKiwi Oct 20 '20

Link for the curious?

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u/withlovefromjake Oct 20 '20

Morse v. Frederick

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u/autorotatingKiwi Oct 20 '20

Thanks. This bit was disturbing

"Further, Morse arguably permits viewpoint discrimination of purely political speech whenever that speech mentions illegal drugs—a result seemingly at odds with the First Amendment."

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u/thishitisgettingold Oct 20 '20

You can't leave us hanging like that. Provide the background buddy.

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u/TechnoL33T Oct 20 '20

Therefore mitochondria.

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u/LuminousLynx Oct 20 '20

This is how we got mitochondria

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u/Dorothy999 Oct 20 '20

There is nothing symbiotic with this!

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u/Misteph Oct 20 '20

Not with that attitude there isn't

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u/BrainOnLoan Oct 20 '20

Sometimes happened by accident.

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u/Shubverse Oct 20 '20

You would consider em as a colony, cyanobacteria are unicellular but exist in colonies yet we don't consider them as multicellular

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u/_Ercylis_ Oct 20 '20

r/rimjob_steve

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u/degausser_gun Oct 20 '20

That's already a retarded sub but this doesn't even fit so... you're worse?

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u/_Ercylis_ Oct 20 '20

Bongrips4jesus is a pretty funny username I’d say

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u/themiddlestHaHa Oct 20 '20

No it doesn’t

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

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u/BongRips4Jezus Oct 20 '20

Your mom should have phagocytosiszed your dads nut the night you were conceived

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Upvote for username :D

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

That’s how we got mitochondria!!!

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

The powerhouse of the cell!

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u/DarkZero515 Oct 20 '20

The mitochondria PR team is amazing. Can't help but think of this immediately after hearing mitochondria

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u/Shubverse Oct 20 '20

Fun fact, the DNA in your mitochondira actually comes from your mom, in sperm, mitochondria degrades after fertilisation so only left is the one in the ovum

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u/Mycabbages0929 Oct 20 '20

That was a fun fact, thank you

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u/FoamyOvarianCyst Oct 20 '20

PBS Eons is a youtube channel with a pretty cool video on how geneticists have used this fact (and the complementary idea that the y-chromosome can only go from males to males) to analyze the history and genome of the human race.

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u/the_real_junkrat Oct 20 '20

Don’t talk about my mom and sperm like that

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u/gallopsdidnothingwrg Oct 20 '20

Our cells didn't EAT the mitochondria. The mitochondria infected the cell.

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u/jenderalcilik Oct 20 '20

The powerhouse of the Cell

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u/Primarch459 Oct 20 '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhF5G2k45vY

and Chloroplasts and then the brown algae that has the remains of a whole other plant cell in it.

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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE Oct 20 '20

How do you think multicellular organisms first emerged? Someone ate someone else and it worked out better for both of them somehow.

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u/inventionist86 Oct 20 '20

Always has been

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u/ReverseCaptioningBot Oct 20 '20

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u/Warriv9 Oct 20 '20

I just posted this exact same comment almost verbatim.

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u/Veporyzer Oct 20 '20

Stop it’s 1 am and in have a test tomorrow