The unbelievable features of this strange organism are not limited to these. We wanted you to interpret this creature, which the scientific world could not understand even while examining it and applying tests on it.
“That’s not all, no more!” If you are ready to say, let’s get to know this organism.
The discovery of this creature, which has not yet been clearly determined whether it is a primitive fungus or a slimy fungus, is quite interesting.
Named “blob” or “drop” by scientists and first discovered in America in 1973, this living creature is yellow in color and has a gelatin-like structure. Although there is no definite opinion about the category of blobs, for now it is considered to be in the class of slime fungi.
The scientific name for blobs, which is actually a class of slime molds and also a member of the Myxomycetes family, is Physarum polycephalum. Their multinucleated structure allows them to act as amoeba. The vast majority of these creatures usually live in dark and damp areas, and various decayed organic matter, fungal spores and bacteria are their main source of nutrition.
These creatures; It has no brain, mouth, eyes, stomach, and central nervous system.
Also capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction, blobs can move 4 cm per hour despite having no limbs and have 720 different sexes. According to biologists, this bright yellow organism can solve problems and share information, even without a brain. It can even heal itself in about 2 minutes if it gets damaged and splits in half!
The strongest proof of their ability to think and solve problems is the maze experiment applied to them.
Biologists, who state that blobs behave like animals, put a labyrinth in front of these creatures and, in a way, put them to a test. As a result, it is observed that the organism surprisingly finds the shortest path to the food in the labyrinth.
In addition, when a salt barrier is placed in front of this strange creature, which is known to hate salt, it is noticed that although there is food behind it, it does not go that way. The blob quickly finds another way around this barrier and manages to reach the food within minutes.
There’s more! Blobs can not only distinguish the shortest path to food.
These organisms distinguish between different foods, such as protein and carbohydrates, and their mixtures, and turn to the food they consider most nutritious. In order to reach these foods, it creates its nets and moves at a speed of 4 cm per hour. It is also impossible for these organisms to age because they have the ability to regularly renew themselves.
Blobs, which excite and attract the attention of biologists and the scientific world with these extraordinary features, are still subject to many researches and examinations with their reversible life cycles and many other interesting features. If you want to see a bright yellow colored organism called a blob, you can visit the Paris Zoo.
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