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How many other animals did they put through a sieve to reach this conclusion? How many?!
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To shreds you say
And that’s why we have a lot of shredded stuff recipes.
After they realised that the subject didn’t reassemble, they then went ahead to do other tests with the shredded matter, one of which was cooking and eating them.
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
How many animals have we ground up and put through a sieve into salt water to be this confident about it being the only animal that can do this? I need sources.
I mean, enough that manufacturing of homogenizers is a thing. https://improbable.com/2021/05/13/shakespeare-and-the-whole-mouse-homogenizer/?amp=1
The ad features the comforting headline: “Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds”
I shouldn’t have asked for sources…
I think there’s nematodes that we’ve blended up before, but instead you get a bunch of nematodes instead of just one.
“Hey, Bob, watcha getting up to?”
“I’m just chopping up these worms.”
“… Why?”
“… sssssscience?”
“Holy shit, they’re all functioning individually!”
“Oh, thank fu- I mean, yeah, that’s what I was testing for. …Do we have any dogs?”
“…”
what’s a nematode?
basically tiny worms, often shorter than a few milimeters. it’s the name for a whole group of different species, so some are microscopic while some can be several cm long
sounds yuckyy I hate insects and worms
I’m trying with a dog now, the hamster and the cat didn’t work…
No…
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
Would have been better without the dumb AI image
Fact: Spongebob can teleport
How do they know other lifeforms do not do that?
Answer me! How do they know?!
Do they regrow their body or a new body made from the same parts?
Chat, is this true?
TIL Deadpool is a sponge.
So that’s how Boros did it
when they come back they grow 2 hands with long fingers and fused palms
