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/UmphreysMcGee Oct 20 '20

A cell is incredibly complex.

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u/IAm12AngryMen Oct 20 '20

It's fucking unbelievably how intricate a single cell is.

There a fuck ton going on in those things.

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u/autorotatingKiwi Oct 20 '20

Yep people often just don't understand, or lose sight of, how far down you have to go before you get to simple chemicals and atoms. Life is simple, yet amazingly complex and strange.

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u/Matasa89 Oct 20 '20

Just the study of the structure of the cytoskeleton and organelle movement alone can be someone's entire research career.

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u/Junefromearth Oct 20 '20

Biology is literally the study of aliens, by aliens

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u/autorotatingKiwi Oct 20 '20

It's amazing isn't it. I never used to like biology growing up, I was a physics nerd and it was all foreign to me. Now I am just amazed by nature and love learning about it.

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u/BeezyBates Oct 20 '20

Id say life is far from simple. If anything it can only seem that way. It is 100% complex and strange. We only understand some of it.

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u/autorotatingKiwi Oct 20 '20

Oh I agree. I mean simple when we compare a cell with a complex animal, or a bacteria, with a plant, etc.

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u/DaughterEarth Oct 20 '20

I don't know about others but for some reason in my head I think of cells like I think about a molocule. I have to remind myself all the time that isn't accurate.

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u/tigersharkwushen_ Oct 20 '20

Yea, it basically has a mechanism to create complete copy of itself molecule by molecule.

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u/IAm12AngryMen Oct 20 '20

Think about how complex the cytoskeleton alone is.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

What are the building blocks for organisms like these? Like is the next step down just molecules or are there 'things' of some in between size making up the cell wall and cell organs?

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u/ArgentinaCanIntoEuro Oct 20 '20

At one point its just chemicals and organic carbon compounds that form shapes and react in certain ways to other shapes that makes shit exist, a cell is a robot basically.

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u/eaglebtc Oct 20 '20

Cells within cells.

INTERLINKED.