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DonSchaeffer · #1 Post by **DonSchaeffer** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:20 pm

Two ciliates locked together. Romance? Asexual reproduction? What?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T930dMbxuI

Rapidray · #2 Post by **Rapidray** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:00 am

I don’t know either, but sound track put a smile on my face.

DonSchaeffer · #3 Post by **DonSchaeffer** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:50 am

That's what it's all about.

Bruce Taylor · #4 Post by **Bruce Taylor** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 12:47 pm

You've recorded a ciliate in the final phase of cell division (binary fission). So, yup...asexual reproduction.

Strictly speaking, all ciliate reproduction is asexual (ciliates do have sex, but reproduction is a separate process).

DonSchaeffer · #5 Post by **DonSchaeffer** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:49 pm

Wow! Thanks.

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