Animal editor concept

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It is a nice touch that you put only the blue layer in the last segment. Maybe the orange layer has a gi tract, so the last segment would correspond to the post anal tail of chordates. Plants can use the same editor as animals. For example, a tree may have 3 segments, the lowest segment has roots attched to it randomly (and can vary in size and number depending on how the organism matures), the middle segment is the trunk and it has cylindrical symmetry, and the highest segment has randomly attached branches. The attached parts such as limbs, branches or eyes can be edited on their own and have their own segments as well. This can be iterative like that. Most animals species have a fixed number of parts such as limbs. Every part would be attached to a segment and moving it to another segment can cost a lot more mutation points or it may not be allowed.

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in the lower right corner there is a longitudinal section of the creature, divided into segments

It can be made vertical for species that are attached to a surface.

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there is an option to connect segments into a group

Another benefit of having iteration is that it can be used for representing zooids and ectosymbionts.

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Clicking on a cell type opens a modified cell editor. Now you cannot display each organelle individually in the cell, however, if you have one or another organelle open, you can change its content in the cell or part of it

So, if we can’t evolve new organelles in multicellular, does this mean that a multicellular species that evolved from an ameboid cell that didn’t have flagella or cillia can’t have sperm cells or mechanoreceptors? Cilia can form Tongue (smell), nose (taste), digestive system,Right? This adds more ways to soft lock or hinder the game. Our ancestors must have had flagella, cillia and myofibril, all 3 of them. Or maybe we evolved from a chimeristic colony whose constituent species unified into a single species via horisontal gene transfer?

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Below this section, also on the left, there are tools: a knife for dividing the cell into sections (which are regulated like individual cells)

Why are individual cells divided into segments? Is it for making polynucleate cells such as muscle cells? Or is it for giving a non symmetric shape to a cell? If we need a cell that is smooth in one hemisphere and full of microvilli on the other, why not design that cell in the modified cell editor from scratch? Why the fruit ninja?

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In the tissue editor, you can change the orientation of the cells (for example, all pointing in the same direction)

Schwann cells would be oriented towards the neuron cells. They and the neuron cell can be considered the segments of a single “cell” when placing them on a tissue or when pressing a + button for increasing the sensitivity of a sensory organ.

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Also, you can change some properties of the cell (section on the left), for example, the ability to endocytose, the ability to exocytose, the presence of a flagellum, the presence of cilia, the presence of a nucleus and the ability of the cell to divide after maturation.

I can’t just decide to allow neuron cells to divide after maturation, right? It would also depend on other things such as how much it is specialised.

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Above the cell itself there is a section with its proteome (you can put proteins in it, quite a lot of them, which are not basic and necessary for survival, but which will be produced in the cell; sliders determine their expression)

Is this for environmental tolerences? And how many proteins would there be, what do you think?