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There seem to be many of these multicellular animals who don’t feel like a singular individual animal. I was commenting on a post a few months ago about the most genetically simple multicellular animal, this thing has less base pairs than most bacteria, and it can also do this trick where disassociated cells recombine into new individuals. This creature also reproduce sexually if and only if the concentration of fellow individuals is high enough, cells will just leave the body and join a new one like for fun. It really calls into question what an individual is.
I guess it makes sense that multicellularity would be more of a spectrum than a binary condition. If life evolved into it gradually, then it would make sense to find a lot of “intermediate” evolutionary states that don’t feel like they’re distinctly one or the other.
Ah, yes, I too read The Bikini Bottom Horror
How many other animals did they put through a sieve to reach this conclusion? How many?!
idk all of them I guess
To shreds you say
Many, many poor little creatures with simpler or more robust or segmented nervous systems. Mostly common worms, cnidarians, starfish, metamorphosing insects, and more in that line of thought. It’s common in college bio to watch planarians unmangle themselves. Sucks for them, but they get food and relative safety, so I’ve always considered it an even trade
If you mix up the grindings of multiple sponges, do they only recombine with their own cells?
Based on the link sent by fossilesque@mander.xyz above, it seems somewhat unlikely. The video mentions that the sponge recombines into multiple small sponges, meaning the cells don’t necessarily remember the original form.
I very well could be wrong in my interpretation though
Excellent question!
Now on to the grinder…
Did I hear on to Grindr?
Hell yes, let’s do science!
The real scientist here asking the real questions
How do they know other lifeforms do not do that?
Answer me! How do they know?!
SCIENCE
and imagination 🌈
Forbidden cake.
Don’t caterpillars turn thier cells to mush when they turn into butterflys?
Yeah, but I don’t think it works with a grinder.
However, apparently caterpillars retain memories from their caterpillar form when in butterfly form! That’s pretty cool.
My friends never seen a butterfly on grinder yet, so I think you’re right.
Seriously though, the whole memory retention thing is amazing
Bro, the whole process of going from caterpillar-> goo->butterfly creeps me out.
I’m sure it is fascinating. But also, nope.
Very fair point.
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So, when they reassemble does it start with the middle finger?
So that’s how Boros did it
when they come back they grow 2 hands with the long fingers and fused palms
Chat, is this true?
