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View Poll Results: Fave Single-celled Organism?
Amoeba 3 27.27%
Paramecium 5 45.45%
Euglena 2 18.18%
Single-celled organisms are beneath me 4 36.36%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 11. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-07-2011, 12:38 PM   #1
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What is your favorite single-celled organism?

Post 'why' if you're so inclined.
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Old 12-07-2011, 12:47 PM   #2
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Old 12-07-2011, 01:06 PM   #3
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Single cell organisms are the shit.
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Old 12-07-2011, 01:22 PM   #4
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They make up the bulk of it, at least.
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Old 12-07-2011, 01:24 PM   #5
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You should edit the poll to allow write in candidates. I vote "Other": Yeast.
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Old 12-07-2011, 01:24 PM   #6
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Name two things commonly found in cells.
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Old 12-07-2011, 01:24 PM   #7
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You forgot to put my favorite one in the poll: Blonde Brain
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Old 12-07-2011, 01:28 PM   #8
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You can't edit a poll, silly goose.

I'm gonna make like an amoeba and split.
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Old 12-07-2011, 01:29 PM   #9
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Name two things commonly found in cells.
Hobos.

Otis.
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Old 12-07-2011, 01:40 PM   #10
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Amoebas are the gold standard of single celled organisms.
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Old 12-07-2011, 01:47 PM   #11
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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...)
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Old 12-07-2011, 02:05 PM   #12
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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.

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Old 12-07-2011, 02:46 PM   #13
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Xenophyophore!
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Old 12-07-2011, 02:52 PM   #14
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That sounds like a monad with questionable morals.

Yes, monad. Great word eh?

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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
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Old 12-07-2011, 02:59 PM   #15
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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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