Slimeobiology
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:28 pm
Greetings!
My name is Cole Hennigan. I'm sure many of you have heard of or even done business with my cousin, Viktor Humphries. I am a licensed Slimeobiologist (Sleye-MAY-o-BI-o-lo-GIST), and one of the the universe's foremost. While all ranchers are required to take two years of Slimeology, simply so they can read the Slimepedia, only the researchers of slimes take Slimeobiology in college. Oh. Sorry. I'm rambling. Anyways, let's get started.
What is Slimeobiology?
In less fancy words, the study of what makes these lovably viscous lifeforms tick.
What is a Slime?
To all current research of my cousin and all Slimeobiologists around the universe, the Slime (Limus Animalia) is a Eukaryotic multicellular organism with a strange structure. Even though it is multicellular, as it has eyes and muscles, the body is structured like a single-celled Protist, with a Nucleus, Cytoplasm, Ribosomes, and Centrioles.
The Slime also has a plasma membrane and is, similarly to a cell, internally powered solely by adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which they get from the foods they eat. We'll get into that later.
The Plort
To start off, let's figure out the single most glaring unknown. You all assume it's poop because the names are similar and it comes out of their back. Well guess what? It's just meat. We eat that and have used animal parts such as whale oil for other uses for thousands of years. The slimes are, as proven above, structured like a cell, so there's no reason for the process of mitosis to occur;
It's just a piece of fat they split off because food they ingested turned into a newer, healthier piece. The main body of the slime would contain the organ that directly converts food into body mass and from what I presume, an endocrine system that releases biochemical hormones to specifically react to the natural sugars and vitamins in specific foods to produce larger and healthier body mass. So, by default, the non-organ after-product of the mitosis is just mass. It's pretty much just shedded skin. Highly processable, and with the right chemicals in their body, a very versatile polymer.
How do they do all this?
Simple. Food. This food gives them a substance called Adenosine triphosphate. ATP is a molecule the cell produces after breaking down ingested glucose, which gives the cell energy to function. With this energy, special ribosome protiens within the slime will immediately start to copy the Slime's DNA from the nucleus. They have to work fast, because the Slime's structural ribosomes have a whole lotta mass and nowhere to put it. Once they are finished copying the DNA, the mitosis I mentioned above will occur, splitting a useless chunk of fat and DNA off of the slime. Voila. The plort.
What makes Favorite Food favorite?
Through random genetic mutation and Darwinism, it isn't that hard for Slimes to evolve at the rate they reproduce. And as we hopefully know so far, one bit of DNA into a literal ocean of cell materials is going to create a LOT of slime really quickly. So when the DNA replication ribosomes of a specific Slime in a specific area screw up, they could get a chemical that reacts with the sugars in specific food to create even more ATP and mass from that specific food. These slimes would live better and more often reproduce. Because the supply of this food ususally dwindles with the amount of Slimes then eating it, they evolve into just the general type of sugar gained, defining their diet. However, they will still always have the best chemical reaction to that specific type.
Okay. I know that was a lot to take in, but I have even more. That is why I'm Earth's leading Slimeobiologist after all, besides maybe those Nick and Mike guys who discovered the slimes. Point is, I'm chock full of answers. And for the information to be answers, you guys gotta ask questions!
So, Fire away!
My name is Cole Hennigan. I'm sure many of you have heard of or even done business with my cousin, Viktor Humphries. I am a licensed Slimeobiologist (Sleye-MAY-o-BI-o-lo-GIST), and one of the the universe's foremost. While all ranchers are required to take two years of Slimeology, simply so they can read the Slimepedia, only the researchers of slimes take Slimeobiology in college. Oh. Sorry. I'm rambling. Anyways, let's get started.
What is Slimeobiology?
In less fancy words, the study of what makes these lovably viscous lifeforms tick.
What is a Slime?
To all current research of my cousin and all Slimeobiologists around the universe, the Slime (Limus Animalia) is a Eukaryotic multicellular organism with a strange structure. Even though it is multicellular, as it has eyes and muscles, the body is structured like a single-celled Protist, with a Nucleus, Cytoplasm, Ribosomes, and Centrioles.
The Slime also has a plasma membrane and is, similarly to a cell, internally powered solely by adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which they get from the foods they eat. We'll get into that later.
The Plort
To start off, let's figure out the single most glaring unknown. You all assume it's poop because the names are similar and it comes out of their back. Well guess what? It's just meat. We eat that and have used animal parts such as whale oil for other uses for thousands of years. The slimes are, as proven above, structured like a cell, so there's no reason for the process of mitosis to occur;
It's just a piece of fat they split off because food they ingested turned into a newer, healthier piece. The main body of the slime would contain the organ that directly converts food into body mass and from what I presume, an endocrine system that releases biochemical hormones to specifically react to the natural sugars and vitamins in specific foods to produce larger and healthier body mass. So, by default, the non-organ after-product of the mitosis is just mass. It's pretty much just shedded skin. Highly processable, and with the right chemicals in their body, a very versatile polymer.
How do they do all this?
Simple. Food. This food gives them a substance called Adenosine triphosphate. ATP is a molecule the cell produces after breaking down ingested glucose, which gives the cell energy to function. With this energy, special ribosome protiens within the slime will immediately start to copy the Slime's DNA from the nucleus. They have to work fast, because the Slime's structural ribosomes have a whole lotta mass and nowhere to put it. Once they are finished copying the DNA, the mitosis I mentioned above will occur, splitting a useless chunk of fat and DNA off of the slime. Voila. The plort.
What makes Favorite Food favorite?
Through random genetic mutation and Darwinism, it isn't that hard for Slimes to evolve at the rate they reproduce. And as we hopefully know so far, one bit of DNA into a literal ocean of cell materials is going to create a LOT of slime really quickly. So when the DNA replication ribosomes of a specific Slime in a specific area screw up, they could get a chemical that reacts with the sugars in specific food to create even more ATP and mass from that specific food. These slimes would live better and more often reproduce. Because the supply of this food ususally dwindles with the amount of Slimes then eating it, they evolve into just the general type of sugar gained, defining their diet. However, they will still always have the best chemical reaction to that specific type.
Okay. I know that was a lot to take in, but I have even more. That is why I'm Earth's leading Slimeobiologist after all, besides maybe those Nick and Mike guys who discovered the slimes. Point is, I'm chock full of answers. And for the information to be answers, you guys gotta ask questions!
So, Fire away!