amoebae

Current molecular and morphological data support the hypothesis that eukaryotic diversity comprises five major supergroups: UNIKONTS, which include animals, the unicellular choanoflagellates, to which they are closely related, as well as fungi (mushrooms!) and a whole host of things called amoebae!

Boing Boing

The amoebae in the Unikont group are more closely related to animals than they are to other so-called amoebae in the other groups, such as ...

Boing Boing

For example: an amoeba might gaily multiply itself into proliferous plurality, gobbling up all the sugary water in the vicinity -- until there is no more sugar and too many amoebae, who then all abruptly die.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like

If you consider inviting people to come to the US cuz they can grow amoebae into microchips, but blocking them from citizenship for 15-20 years, to be a minor thing, well: you need to get out more.

Matthew Yglesias » Sleep Deprivation

Fewer amoebae at any one moment, but they can live on into the future.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like

For example: an amoeba might gaily multiply itself into proliferous plurality, gobbling up all the sugary water in the vicinity -- until there is no more sugar and too many amoebae, who then all abruptly die.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like

Neither a plant nor an animal, and once thought to be a fungus, most slime moulds are now considered more closely related to amoebae.

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Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.

The Catastrophist

Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.

The Catastrophist

Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.

The Catastrophist