Anonymous asked:
Do you know any kinds of cells with really funky internal structures?
bunjywunjy answered:
mm probably this one!
it’s Valonia ventricosa (also called bubble algae or sailor’s eyeballs) and that whole mess is, in fact, a single cell.
and because this one cell is so damn huge, it contains multiple nucleuses and billions upon billions of individual chloroplasts.
go ahead and stick this thing under a microscope, I dare you.
but the really bonkers part… is that in order to reproduce, these fucking things undergo mitosis just like any other cell.
sure am glad I don’t have to deal with that!
Imagine having a whole cell for a pet and telling your friends about it
OP is literally making this up and none of the notes mention it? this is called Veradontis Geodia and it’s related to the sea sponge. it’s actually millions of different cells and the last three images are of it having host algae, which isn’t uncommon. i’m a marine biologist and we handle these all the time at work.
you are literally insane
