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infinite monkey 12-07-2011 12:38 PM

What is your favorite single-celled organism?
 
Post 'why' if you're so inclined.

Lamplighter 12-07-2011 12:47 PM

The Cellar - otherwise it would be named "The Cellars"

Pete Zicato 12-07-2011 01:06 PM

Single cell organisms are the shit.

Happy Monkey 12-07-2011 01:22 PM

They make up the bulk of it, at least.

BigV 12-07-2011 01:24 PM

You should edit the poll to allow write in candidates. I vote "Other": Yeast.

jimhelm 12-07-2011 01:24 PM

Name two things commonly found in cells.

GunMaster357 12-07-2011 01:24 PM

You forgot to put my favorite one in the poll: Blonde Brain

infinite monkey 12-07-2011 01:28 PM

You can't edit a poll, silly goose.

I'm gonna make like an amoeba and split.

infinite monkey 12-07-2011 01:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimhelm (Post 778546)
Name two things commonly found in cells.

Hobos.

Otis.

footfootfoot 12-07-2011 01:40 PM

Amoebas are the gold standard of single celled organisms.

infinite monkey 12-07-2011 01:47 PM

Really, you got the win, place, and show with the three in the poll. It's all about mobility.

Amoebas and their pseudopod, parameciums and their cilia, euglenas and their flagella.

(And no, I don't know from Latin plural vs. singular...)

glatt 12-07-2011 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 778557)
Amoebas are the gold standard of single celled organisms.

Perhaps, but paramecia have those cool hairs that paddle them through water. And they have a mouth, of sorts.

Happy Monkey 12-07-2011 02:46 PM

Xenophyophore!

infinite monkey 12-07-2011 02:52 PM

That sounds like a monad with questionable morals. :lol:

Yes, monad. Great word eh?

Quote:

A unicellular organism, also known as a single-celled organism is an organism that consists of only one cell, in contrast to a multicellular organism that consists of multiple cells. Historically simple single celled organisms have sometimes been referred to as monads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicellular_organism

Clodfobble 12-07-2011 02:59 PM

Non-motile cells are highly underrepresented in this poll, a fact I can only ascribe to pervasive ballot-tampering and nepotism in the semifinals. Proteus vulgaris was totally robbed.


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