Round: 5Event: N/A | Free Food 2 More Turnsredwatt50Signal agents: 1 | Sorry mate, seems you didn't get anyone to +2 you
Description: You evolve a complex, expensive system for releasing copious quantities of a signal agent to attract members of your species and do some cool quorum-sensing stuff. Sadly, the agent your species chose is the phosphate ion, ubiquitous enough to make a completely useless agent since there's always some of it around, but rare enough that your species' organisms are really wishing they didn't start dumping all those very-important-for-healthy-cell-function phosphate reserves. Good thing there's suddenly a lot more phosphate floating around, or you'd be screwed.
Past Adaptations:
Small vacuoles
Chloroplasts
Mitochondria
Conservation Status:
VU (-)
ImmortalHorizontal Gene Transfer: 1 + 2 | No effect.
Description: Your cells consider developing horizontal gene transfer, but they eventually fail to agree to do so as the other species on the planet seem like rather untrustworthy sources of DNA.
Past Adaptations:
Two super-flagella
Chemosynthesis
Mitochondria (2x)
Conservation Status:
LC(+)
[OPEN SLOT] Description: This species seems to have collectively lost the will to live, or maybe it's dangerously complacent, what with all the free food. Either way, it will soon go the way of Dodobacter Extinctori, and become nothing but dispersed molecules in the sea.
Past Adaptations:
Mitochondria
Conservation Status:
EN(-)
joshthehawkVacuoles: 3 + 2 | Exactly as expected
Description: You evolve vacuoles, large, pulsating sacs of sugars, glycosaminoglycans, and lots of water. Surely the water inside you will come in handy, adrift as you are in the parched desert of the ocean. Admittedly the ancillary benefits of being able to store plenty of other things
alongside the water, and being able to much-more-easily osmoregulate, are very much worth lugging those waterbags around. After a full meal, you might even have grandchildren before absolutely needing to eat again. Of course, seeing as you rely on the background rain of free-floating compounds, you can't exactly define a "full meal", since you're always eating a bit at a time.
Past Adaptations:
Golgi protein factory + packaging center
Cilia
Flagellum
Mitochondria
Conservation Status:
LC
classyamoebaWeak acid: 5 + 2 + 2 | SUPER EVOLUTION!
Description: Your cells develop some polarization, forming flattened hemispherical shapes, cilia on the curved side, and some jelly covering the flat side. The jelly is a mix of inorganic acids, various acidic and basic peptides, in a base of long-chain glycoproteins. The acids etch at different minerals, the peptides chelate the released ions for efficient uptake, and the glycoproteins keep everything inside the jelly and protect the membrane. Altogether, these organisms slowly crawl along seafloor rocks, etching microscopic paths into them for nutrients, and leaving just enough acid in the water around them that anything that tries to eat them is met with partial digestion.
Past Adaptations:
+Density
Golgi Apparatus
Cilia
Lithiotrophy
Conservation Status:
NT (+)
moopliVertical gene transfer: 3 + 2 | Exactly as expected
Description: This species co-opts the process of accidental escape from the hydrothermal colonies, causing cells which find themselves floating free to become gametes, undergoing meiosis to produce two sets of shuffled DNA, which mix to produce two different child lineages once two gametes find each other and fuse. The process of ECM production then begins with the two new zygotes, completing the life cycle when the zygotes (or even just one) reach suitable places for anchoring.
Past Adaptations:
ECM binding to hydrothermal vents
Flagella
Thermoplast
Mitochondria
Conservation Status:
NT
Gabriel GGSignal agents: 5 + 2 | Great Success!
Description: This species has developed a system of signal agents allowing a form of basic quorum sensing, allowing cells to both congregate in groups for feeding, as well as disperse to avoid wasting energy swimming where there is no longer any food.
Past Adaptations:
Flagella
Mitochondria
Conservation Status:
VU (+)
thedoctorLysosomes: 3 + 2 | Exactly as expected
Description: This species has evolved a new type of organelle which puts together a proton pump and various digestive enzymes in a small sac which fuses with a phagosome to unleash digestive vengeance on whatever poor piece of food has ended up within. This cell is now a full predator, though it prefers to call itself a patient ambush predator as it doesn't have the means to hunt down anything.
Past Adaptations:
Phagocytosis
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Caveolae
Mitochondria Minor Leech
Conservation Status:
NT
Notes:
- Classyamoeba actually has
two axes of polarization -- one axis (which he must have had before) is what causes the cilia to beat one way, which is why they crawl around in the first place, the other, evolved now, being what leads to the two radically-different sections of the membrane.
- I'm pretty tired so I decided to be a bit more funny with these. Hope nobody minds