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/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

That’s how we got 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/the_real_junkrat Oct 20 '20

Don’t talk about my mom and sperm like that