Living in the Underground

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Are there ways to increase the mutation rate from where it is now to something higher?

[willow (they/her or yours are was/were)]

geomedusa parefolia
egg-leafed polyp
geomedusa parefolia’s leaves(would-be medusas) now produce an egg cell via mitosis, then fill it with ammonia so it’ll have the resources to build some cells without needing to consume first.
these egg cells, at the time of being released from the leaf, are already completely covered in (very primitive) chlorosomes, are about 3-4 times the size of a normal geomedusa parefolia cell, and look like this

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however, a while after they exit the leaf, they pull all the gene carrying organelles(ex: hydrogenoplast, nucleus, and small storage vesicles) to the center and form a new membrane around the center, before going through the normal cell cycle, until they run out of ammonia, carbon, or phosphate, and then they enter maintenance only mode(pic of a ‘cell’ inside a mature egg ready to attach to a surface below)

they are nearly identical to the cells of the medusae, aside from lacking a cell membrane and instead only having a plasma membrane. when the egg is ready to split, the plasma membrane of the egg becomes the outer membrane of the cells, and the egg cell’s chlorosomes are digested to provide extra energy for growth, while the egg’s cell membrane is left intact until everything within is digested, and then it is eaten

oh btw, how efficient are my chlorosomes currently? i’m guessing somewhere between 30 and 70% since they’re not exactly very optimized yet?

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1. the orange vesicles are full of ammonia, the pink bits are the hydrogenoplasts, and the green things in the membrane are the chlorosomes, which are sandwiched between the cell membrane and the plasma membrane ↩︎

[Nonametoseehere (Plant Hiveminds!)]

Could we mutate one caste at normal speed if we didn’t change the other ones?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yeah, you can do that.
And willow, I’m gonna average that to 50%.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Will we be able to command our species to do some actions when we evolve brains for instance?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yes, complex behaviors, eyes, all the good stuff.

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

I am assuming, just like with Choanozoa, species cannot mutated more than 2x size and more than one type of new tissue every round?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Will we for instance be able to command them to reproduce more if our species happen to be in a population crisis?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yes, you definitely can. Also AA, the size limit is 2x increase, just like in Choanozoa.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

What are the requirements for a tier 1 brain?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Basic aerobic respiration, blood, and digestive system.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

And so far none of us have any of that, right?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yes, none have that. Stuff like that is unlocked at the macroscopic stages.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

And to reach that we need 100 cells. How many cells do my polyps have now?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Around 13 I think. Though, I am not sure.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I count my polyp as the base + central medusa + petal medusas.

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

So we are allowed to increase the size of other stage besides the Medusa stage?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Pretty sure these stages are just life stages, and just like medusa we can evolve them too. Like how I managed to fuse medusa and polyp together.

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yes, that is allowed. I have noticed none of you care about the planulas that much, except willow…

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Maybe soon enough planulas won’t be that much needed for our species (besides willow’s) anymore…