Comments by "Ginny Jolly" (@ginnyjollykidd) on "Jam's Germs" channel.

  1. Like the monster in Yellow Submarine in the Sea of Monsters that hoovered everything up including itself?
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  2. Here the mouth might be shaped already and be an appendage while in other organisms (amoebas, e.g., that put out engulfing parts of itself that look like fingers that surround the food. We rarely see it in 3-D, tho. If we did, it would look more like a baseball glove surrounding a ball and trying to close all the way around it. But like us holding the ball in our glove, the amoeba can't make it a part of itself yet. So it holds the food in a ball of outside environment in its outer membrane pinched off to hold the food, kind of like bunching it up in a garbage sack. In that "sac" or vacuole, the amoeba sends digestive chemicals in, and freed nutrients are brought to the cell proper. When the prey is finished, the vacuole joins with the outer membrane again, and any waste is released, too. Oh! And look up clathrin and clathrin cages! So. Cool!
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  3.  @__D-B__  Sensitive and triggered? That's an ad hominem attack. Not a good argument.
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  4.  @finalarbitrator4551  So don't feed the troll. Let's get some on - topic communication going. Thx.
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  5.  @__D-B__  Religion is not being discussed here. Science isn't discussed here, either. Observations are discussed here. A religion /science discussion is philosophical and way off topic. Yes there are religious people —devout people —who respect both in their lives and can regard each in its own realm. Reconciling them is a purely individual activity. Don't dis religious people or scientific people or reconcilers of both.
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  6. Everybody gotta eat, including Venus flytraps.
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  7.  @markd523  Do not equate ignorance with mental illness.That only causes more stigma. Mental health consumers aren't stupid.
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  8.  @ganfy465  they still respire. And that doesn't mean the other one won't win in the end.
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  9.  @thesilentone4024  That would be really cool to see what kind of chemistry would cause the colors! Some organisms have mutualistic relationships with internalized organisms with chlorophyll. (don't remember which ones.) I imagine red and yellow ones to be from xanthin pigments. Blue is difficult because it's not a natural pigment but a characteristic of light refracting off the surface. Any one of these would be great experiments to perform.
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  10.  @tinycervid7679  Ah! I miss genetics in college! I wished and wish I could make a career of it!
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  11.  @randyg666  Symbiotic.
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  12. It was so sad. And it was trying hard. But all must face their demise. And even though it was so sad, it must happen. I'll be sad for a while. But I'll carry on. I never thought I'd be sad at the death of a one - celled animal. May the Blessings Be. Edit: this was of the kingdom Protista, not the kingdom of Animalia.
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  13. If you look at it yourself under a microscope, you will see a paramecium twist, run forward, and backward. Cilla are all over its body. We can only see the ones at its mouth. It's really quite fast, and you have to focus up and down to see it all. It's kind of like a mango pit in shape. The reason you see it in 2-D here is because the lens doesn't give depth of field like a camera does and can only show you a tiny sliver of what you are looking at.
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  14.  @cyraxx604  Hey! We can all use some reality in our cartoons! I can see the end of the tube looking like a frown with a tongue lolling and looking like it's gasping for breath! 😂 But when more or better reality meets fiction, that's even funnier, since there's a lot of surprising, odd, real stuff out there!
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  15. Well, more like there are advantages and disadvantages in each case. I can't swallow a watermelon whole, but it looks like Tiny here might have to regurgitate waste products. We, however, and snakes swallowing elephants, have a throughway and can pass our waste out of an end other than the mouth, a more comfortable way to digest.
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  16.  @pavel9652  Citation needed
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  17.  @andrewfrankovic6821  I'll call that logical. You said things requiring fuel. Indeed! There are things not needing fuel in the world Biome. Dormant individuals like Herpes zoster which lies dormant in facial nerves until the cells they are in become unable to house them safely. Then these viruses emerge and cause Shingles. Water bears in their tun state. Seeds. Spores. They don't need energy while dormant. Even butterfly and moth pupae don't need food while incubating. But yes, when bears awaken from hibernation, viruses lose their shelter, water bears get hydrates again, and so on, they need to invade other organisms for energy. If it were not for this, we'd be a world full of putrid, vile garbage.
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  18.  @pavel9652  Sorry, Wikipedia, while a good starting point, isn't a peer-reviewed scientific publication. Try again.
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  19. This is how we got eukaryotes, right?
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