Religions > Atheism > Any examples of post-mitosis cannibalism among unicellular organisms?
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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Uncle Clover" |
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19 Feb 2007 08:07:49 PM |
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Any examples of post-mitosis cannibalism among unicellular organisms? |
I'm looking for a very exotic type of organism - one it would be almost
impossible to find in nature, I suspect. The design specifications for the
organism are this:
- must be unicellular;
- must reproduce via mitosis;
- must be perpectually self-cannibalizing, meaning that immediately after
mitosis, one half eats the other half, bringing all components back into the
same cellular wall;
- their fluid exchange and excretion system must be such that they don't need to
actively seek it - fresh fluid with nutrients follows one channel in, and waste
molecules follow another channel out. Thus, the only thing the organism would
have to "do" in order to continue survival is for one offspring to turn around
and eat the other one into perpetuity. Some sort of "codon" should be used
which forms at the shared wall of the two cells as they undergo mitosis, but
which will only break off & be taken into one of the two, not both. The
function of the codon would be to stifle the "turn around and eat new offspring"
response in the organism which possesses it.
While not a -perfect- organic visualization of the concept, I hereby dub this
speculative organism the "Oureborii", and further more, I challenge anyone to
make it! ;-)
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L8r,
Uncle Clover
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