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[flabort]

You are this thing:

You are floating in a liquid; but what are you?

What is your color? (This IS important)
What is your special trait? (Keep this simple, something you'd expect a single celled organism to have)
What will you call yourself? (This is less important)

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[~Neri]

Purple.

Multiple Nuclei and therefore capable of much larger shape given material.

Nirkae.

((Amoebas are multinucleied. They get fucking huge.))

[Peradon]

Brown

Tertiary Mitosis: When performing mitosis, splits into 3 cells instead of two.

[~Neri]

Brown

Tertiary Mitosis: When performing mitosis, splits into 3 cells instead of two.

Wouldn't that result in either mitosis requiring more material or the split off cells being smaller? Therefore balancing out with binary materialwise?

[Harry Baldman]

From the picture it kind of looks like we're assumed to be eukaryotes, though it's hard to tell, could just be deposits or something of that nature. Are we aerobic eukaryotes? Do we have mitochondria, the endoplasmic reticulum and all that jazz?

If so, I vote for a chitin-based cell wall (or mixed acid fermentation, that works as well).

If we're prokaryotes, I vote for having beta-lactamases so that all those lactame antibiotics can't touch us anymore.

For the color, Purple seems good enough, although it's tempting to ask for anoxygenic photosynthesis if that goes through.

[Andres]

Red

Can more easily combat other cells

[Harry Baldman]

Brown

Tertiary Mitosis: When performing mitosis, splits into 3 cells instead of two.

Wouldn't that result in either mitosis requiring more material or the split off cells being smaller? Therefore balancing out with binary materialwise?

I think I recall mitosis occasionally happening three ways, but that's typically an anomaly since it results in an asymmetrical distribution of DNA and thus a bunch of problems. Though it might not if the cell was triploid to begin with. So that's quite correct, yes.

[Peradon]

Brown

Tertiary Mitosis: When performing mitosis, splits into 3 cells instead of two.

Wouldn't that result in either mitosis requiring more material or the split off cells being smaller? Therefore balancing out with binary materialwise?

I think I recall mitosis occasionally happening three ways, but that's typically an anomaly since it results in an asymmetrical distribution of DNA and thus a bunch of problems. Though it might not if the cell was triploid to begin with. So that's quite correct, yes.

I'm not good with my micro-biology, so I'm going to go with a solid "Maybe".

[Jbg97]

Brown

we have mitochondria, unlike those prokaryotic plebs.

[Xantalos]

Green

Is capable of both photosynthesis and cannibalization of other cells
Also reproduces via spores rather than mitosis, if we even do that in the first place

Ork

Ork mode activate.

[~Neri]

Green

Is capable of both photosynthesis and cannibalization of other cells

Ork mode activate.

Throw in spore based reproduction rather than mitosis and sure.

[Xantalos]

Dunno if we can do more than one thing (or if spores that small are even a thing, since I haven't biology in a while), but I'll add it in.

[Harry Baldman]

Dunno if we can do more than one thing (or if spores that small are even a thing, since I haven't biology in a while), but I'll add it in.

Bacilli have spores, yeasts have asci with several spores, so why not? I do suppose those are two features you have in your suggestion rather than one, though, even if you do consider phagocytosis a thing that any cell should be able to do (which I'm not sure is part of the core package - endocytosis certainly is, though, which is on a much smaller scale).

[Xantalos]

Clarification will come about at some point then, and one way or another I'll be able to inject a stupid amount of ridiculousness into this supposedly serious game!

[Andres]

Green

Is capable of both photosynthesis and cannibalization of other cells
Also reproduces via spores rather than mitosis, if we even do that in the first place

Ork

Ork mode activate.

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