Juggling: It's not just for vertebrates anymore

http://www.microscopyu.com/moviegallery/pondscum/protozoa/stentor/t1/stentor01.html

Here is a film of a single-cellular organism juggling an amoeba!

That’s some pretty good contact juggling.

Eukayotes think they’re so special, but they’d get their asses kicked in a prokaryote/eukaryote war, juggling or not!

Wow, I definitly hope to see him in next years WJF championships in the begginer category.

Okay, I know this thread didn’t get a lot of attention, but I am totally hooked on these videos of microorganisms.

Here’s one of a critter called a “water bear.” the scientific name is tardigrade.
He can’t juggle but the film maker (Martin Mach) thought he could dance.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/imgmay01/mmbear1.wmv

Single celled organisms are cool. I’m taking biology currently, so i’m learning about all the chemical reactions and respiration and ect. I’ts pretty amazing!

Man! Those protoplasmic bad boys can really get down :sunglasses:

I wonder…

I mean, I guess binary fission is a bit faster than mitosis, and to quote my father in regards to why Germany lost WWII, “I don’t care if you have a guy with a .22 strapped to the roof of a Volkswagon. If you can produce 1000 of them per month against 100 Panzers you’re going to win.”

But eukaryotes have so much more going for them. And with any luck they could engulf a bacterium and make it just another organelle, mitochondria style.

Anyway, an interesting debate for another time.

Well, actually, you have to look at the strengths and weaknesses of the organisms.

Prokaryotes as a general rule are MUCH more adaptive as a group or species than Eukaryotes. Whatever you throw at them, unless it completely whipes them out, subsequent generations will be adapted to. Then they can even pass those adaptations between species.

Eukaryotes are much more adaptive as an organism. A single Eukaryote has a much better change of surviving hardship than a single Prokaryote (by turning different genes on and off, etc) - but a colony of Prokaryotes will outcompete Eukaryotes as a general rule. Pro’s can also grow in much MUCH harsher conditions (Extremophiles, etc) than Eukaryotes.

Being a Microbiologist (currently working in construction) I’m a bit biased since I deal with bacteria more than anything else, and thus really loves me a good prokaryote. Eukaryotes are too stuck up (and big) for me to really care about.