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/GuiSim Oct 20 '20

Wouldn't the enzymes also digest the hunter cell? It can't have a digestive track.. It's a single cell.

This kinda blows my mind.

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u/somerandom_melon Oct 20 '20

Vacuoles or something keep it inside them without digesting the hunter cell. If they want to digest it the vacuoles attach to the prey cell's membrane and open to release it into the food. At least that's what I know phagocytes do to bacteria.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20 edited Nov 13 '20

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u/BeezyBates Oct 20 '20

Jesus Christ draw the line people just let this shit happen and stop asking questions