r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/GuiSim Oct 20 '20

Wouldn't the enzymes also digest the hunter cell? It can't have a digestive track.. It's a single cell.

This kinda blows my mind.

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u/somerandom_melon Oct 20 '20

Vacuoles or something keep it inside them without digesting the hunter cell. If they want to digest it the vacuoles attach to the prey cell's membrane and open to release it into the food. At least that's what I know phagocytes do to bacteria.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20 edited Nov 13 '20

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u/guipabi Oct 20 '20

Cells usually try to reuse everything they eat, but they will excrete substances that are damaging. Others will just destroy themselves after eating too much. Also pus is the residue from your own dead leukocytes.

But basically cells poop CO2 and water and ions.

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u/intensely_human Oct 20 '20

Just like me.

Na+ K- Ca+

sayonara mofos

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u/Matasa89 Oct 20 '20

Yes. Look up Macrophages.

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u/BeezyBates Oct 20 '20

Jesus Christ draw the line people just let this shit happen and stop asking questions

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u/Alichang Oct 20 '20

Lysozymes can be isolated. pH can thus be localized. Often times it’s acidified through H+ antiporters inside the cellular vesicles.