yo dawg I heard you like cells
When a cell eats a cell that ate a cell that ate a cell
what is the cellular turducken
$100: These guys aren’t parasitic for once omg
→ Euglenids: the gifted kids
$100: Eating other cells raw
→ heterotrophy but make it feral
Diatom armor
the frustule aka silica drip
Fungal cell wall material
chitin (shrimp armor)
$200: Oldest eukaryotes:
→ Excavates… literally the fossils of the friend group
$200: Floating around accomplishing nothing:
→ planktonic (the spongebob starter pack)
Stramenopiles are:
diatoms, brown kelp giants, golden girlies, and oomycete wet gremlins
Chytrids:
fungi with flagella bc they refuse to evolve
Primary vs secondary endosymbiosis:
ate bacteria vs ate someone who already ate bacteria (cannibalism deluxe)
$300: Hydrogenosomes:
→ mitochondria but broke
$300: Where Euglenids stole their chloroplasts:
→ green algae, the original sugar daddy
Why diatoms fossilize like icons
glass bones, paper skin
Coenocytic fungus squads
mucoromycota & zoopagomycota (one big cell, no thoughts)
The superkingdom born from green algae getting jump-scared into a host
Euglenids, the grass-powered iPads
$400: Alveoli (in protists):
→ the little airpods under their membrane
Haptophyte signature item
the haptonema (fishing rod of righteousness)
Beer & bread yeast bois
Saccharomycotina (fermentation nation)
The apicoplast:
the parasite’s emotional support chloroplast
$500: Diseases caused by excavates
→ giardia splash attack, trichomonas jiggle plague, sleepy-time sickness, and Chagas jumpscare
$500: Rhizaria pseudopodia:
→ extended noodly arms for maximum grabby-hands
Coccoliths
calcium carbonate snowflakes they yeet everywhere
Food spoilage kings
Pezizomycotina: the mold speedrunners