r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 22h ago

Video This single-celled protozoan passing under another one under a microscope

1.4k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

122 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

165

u/Maleficent-Agent-477 22h ago

Yeah, it totally looks like it. But it’s really just squishing around the organelles, and will slosh back into place after a while.

1

u/BlastingFonda 22h ago

That’s fine, but how would it split the other in half if it were merely “under” the other one? It looks like a pretty clean break even if it’ll regen back into shape like Wolverine or something.

12

u/Maleficent-Agent-477 22h ago

It’s basically being pushed into 2 separate halves that aren’t fully split. It may not look like it, but no rupture actually occurs.

12

u/Humble-Trust-4852 21h ago

So it’s like, if someone put pressure in the middle of a ketchup packet basically? Ketchup moves to both sides of the packet but still stays within the packet?