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...?)]

I can assume these will come into play soon?

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

I already submitted my mutations. Did we begin a new round already?

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

No, I’d think a new round would start with some species images…

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Well, here it is!

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

I assume the style will change when we get to macroscopic?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yes. You know, like in Choanozoa?

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

So there’ll be a proper background and the picture will look more 3d I presume?

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

Scientific Name: Geoctenophorae duobananum
Common Name: Double Banana Comber

The Planula stage has gained an additional Hydrogenosome, and more cilia for movement. Its organelle reproduction order has changed in so that it staggers the ATP producing organelles with the more ATP demanding organelles, and this fine-tuned reproduction rearrangement creates better energy and movement efficiency.

The Polyp stage has gained an additional cell, making the Polyp longer. The Polyp stage also has gained more cytoplasmic extensions on the outer most cell for better feeding in this stage. These extra cytoplasmic extensions/tentacles give the Polyps stage a similar appearance to Haootia quadriformis.

During the Meduse Stage, Two Banana Combers stay in proximity to each other before sticking together to form a binary organism. Each Banana Comber has increased in size by 10%. The storage tissue and digestion tissues have increased as a result of the increased Medusa Stage size. Also, the cell adhesion molecules have increased on each Banana Comver as well. Each of the two primitive Colloblast tentacles on each Banana Comber has increased in length by one cell.

Also, there are five muscle cells now on each primitive Colloblast tentacle, which are connected to the cap cells and the “regular” tentacle cels in series. When the cap cells at the end on each primitive Colloblast tentacle burst to catch pray, it sends out a calcium cascade across the connected muscle cells, causing the muscle cells and the primitive Colloblast tentacle to contract. Each of the two primitive Colloblast tentacles on each Banana Comber can contract independently, but only if both Colloblast caps are not triggered at the same time by prey.

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

How large do you think is your critter in the medusa stage now?

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

With the two Comb Jellies together, probably the size of your Petal organism. Maybe slightly smaller.

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

Hm. These jellies are rather large then…

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

The Banana Combers are quite elongated due to their Banana shape.

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

“Two bananers are better than one”

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

How many Comb Jellies need to be in a colony before it can become a separate life stage?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Around 5 jellies. Then it’ll be a new life stage.

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

Am I allowed to double the amount of Jellies added to colony (only for getting to the Colony Life Stage) per round, or just add one Sea Jelly at a time per round?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, double it and give it to the next round.

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

geofolia parefolium

the cytoplast(what i’m calling my cells within my cells) count within a ‘mature’ egg has doubled, and all cells have developed 12 rather large pores in their plasma membranes, which, in egg cells, allows atp to be directly exchanged between cytoplasts and the periplasm/cytoplasm of the host cell
geofolia parefolium has also started developing the cytoplasts in its eggs before they leave the leaves

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

Does my critter have like 100 cells when mature yet?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

I think it has around 70 cells…