Some Eggs Don't Need Sperm to Make Babies

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  • @Longuncattr
    @Longuncattr 3 роки тому +42

    It's so cute seeing the tardigrade's little mouth parts twitching in the egg.

  • @GaleFlamel
    @GaleFlamel 3 роки тому +7

    really sucks that the tardigrade hatching footage was obstructed by the ad

  • @intpleb4206
    @intpleb4206 Рік тому

    7:13 A baby tardigrade hatching!!! This isn't something you'll catch everyday, and such a wonderful moment that James managed to capture under the scope! Thank you so much

  • @Haplo-san
    @Haplo-san 3 роки тому +10

    I loved the new ost. Made me lost in thoughts and feel the connection as they are descendants of my long lost relatives that parted ways and lost each other couple billion years ago.

  • @VoidHalo
    @VoidHalo Рік тому +1

    You should do a follow-up about seeds and pollen. I was surprised to learn a seed is actually an embryo. The way some plants reproduce, pollen needs to fertilize the seed, which seems analogous to sperm fertilizing an egg, so I just assumed seeds were the plant analog of an egg. But the fact that it's an embryo is really counterintuitive. Especially when you consider the largest seeds, which are about the size of a football. On a side note, I wonder if the egg cells (ova) from large mammals like whales are any larger than smaller mammals. Would a blue whale ovum be larger than a shrew's?

  • @rotifer
    @rotifer 3 роки тому +16

    *Yes I do prefer my eggs, membrane side up.*

  • @soliton1
    @soliton1 3 роки тому +4

    I have always have difficulty focusing on both, the audio and video. either of them so philosophical that it absorbs me into contemplative state.

  • @austinfreyrikrw6651
    @austinfreyrikrw6651 3 роки тому +21

    How appropriate to end this video with the footage of a tardigrade egg hatching. ❤

  • @nickcosimano5028
    @nickcosimano5028 3 роки тому +7

    That last clip with the tardigrade is priceless

  • @burtbackattack
    @burtbackattack 3 роки тому +6

    The guy whose job it is to capture this footage has the best job in the world! Love this channel.

    • @Mate397
      @Mate397 3 роки тому

      That would be James the Master of Microscopes

    • @Michaelroni-n-cheese
      @Michaelroni-n-cheese Рік тому

      ​@@Mate397Mhat mould me Mames Master of MMMicroscopes

  • @justincarnes1553
    @justincarnes1553 3 роки тому +8

    My favorite bed time channsl. You soothe my bones and get my thoughts flowing

  • @vitamink1028
    @vitamink1028 3 роки тому +65

    "1:58" the Gastrotrich looks like a hairy otter here and I can't unsee it.

    • @MagentaFaux
      @MagentaFaux 3 роки тому +5

      Now I can't unsee it too, but I love it

    • @gtbkts
      @gtbkts 3 роки тому +2

      Now I cant unsee it. Cool. Thx.

    • @lyreparadox
      @lyreparadox 3 роки тому +7

      lol, the whiskers make it surprisingly adorable for a microbe.

    • @NovaGirl8
      @NovaGirl8 3 роки тому +2

      I was seeing a hair otter as well as a potato

    • @ankhkk118
      @ankhkk118 3 роки тому +1

      Harry potter?

  • @vitamink1028
    @vitamink1028 3 роки тому +48

    Really interesting how those Artemia cells stall apoptosis to stay alive.

    • @borrero-md1196
      @borrero-md1196 3 роки тому +5

      We do basically the same. And although eggs are an amazing example, all cells have an amazing set of "tools" to constatly test and either prevent or promote apoptisis. Imagine human eggs... They can remain in a halted phase of it's cell division cycle for decades (women are born with their eggs already there) enduring all sorts of threats that could and would damage it's DNA and other structures and lay in waiting until it is randomly selected to resume the cycle and maybe be fertilized.

    • @pilotavery
      @pilotavery 3 роки тому

      Hi I want to explode myself except I'm going to try very hard to block myself from exploding myself until it's the right time and then I'll relax so I can explode

    • @persephone2706
      @persephone2706 3 роки тому

      @@pilotavery _What in the fuck..._

    • @pilotavery
      @pilotavery 3 роки тому +3

      @@persephone2706 This is what cells are doing. They try and blow themselves up when they are damaged and then they have another mechanism that tries to prevent them from blowing themselves up when damaged

    • @beachdoggo7892
      @beachdoggo7892 3 роки тому

      @@pilotavery tsrtt

  • @beatleguise
    @beatleguise 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks for that surprise at the end!

  • @kb470
    @kb470 3 роки тому +27

    I'm going to fix the thumbnail title.
    "Eggstreme Eggs"
    You're welcome. You can have it for free

  • @journeytomicro
    @journeytomicro  3 роки тому

    The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: skl.sh/journeytothemicrocosmos06211

  • @thomasgoodwin2648
    @thomasgoodwin2648 3 роки тому +22

    Then of course there are the Rip Van Rotifers that just woke up after a 24,000 year permafrost nap.
    Given the tenacity and diversity of life on Earth, how can one believe it is not typical and the rest of the universe is empty.
    Methinks it'll be a lively place. Now will someone please invent the future so we can get out n have a look around?

  • @tomyjwu
    @tomyjwu 3 роки тому +3

    That Tardigrade hatching near the end of video is really amazing.

  • @snehapradhan5591
    @snehapradhan5591 3 роки тому +3

    The egg hatching is sooo cute 😭

  • @josipj705
    @josipj705 3 роки тому +72

    You missed the opportunity to call this video "Eggstreme eggs"

    • @jasrajzlimbu8463
      @jasrajzlimbu8463 3 роки тому +5

      Eggxactly

    • @hdezn26
      @hdezn26 3 роки тому +2

      @@jasrajzlimbu8463 Eggcellent!

    • @chrono-glitchwaterlily8776
      @chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 3 роки тому +2

      Sighs in eggsasperation

    • @hdezn26
      @hdezn26 3 роки тому

      @@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 Supprised there isn't any Eggsrta comments, lol.

    • @chrono-glitchwaterlily8776
      @chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 3 роки тому +2

      @@hdezn26 I'd assume there'd be more, though I'm hoping they're eggsagerating. They're more fun that way

  • @nariu7times328
    @nariu7times328 3 роки тому +16

    Can we see the full footage of the tardigrade hatching pleeeease? I watched the sponsor all all the way through (as always) but feel like I missed something :)

    • @anticlockwisepropeller7379
      @anticlockwisepropeller7379 3 роки тому +7

      the full video of the tardigrade hatching is on James's channel!
      ua-cam.com/video/tKUix8e4z_E/v-deo.html

    • @nariu7times328
      @nariu7times328 3 роки тому +3

      @@anticlockwisepropeller7379 THANK YOU!

  • @metairiemomma
    @metairiemomma 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you for this video and for this wonderful channel!

  • @MagentaFaux
    @MagentaFaux 3 роки тому +12

    I'm learning a lot of words today.

    • @idiotidiot5821
      @idiotidiot5821 3 роки тому +1

      I learn a new word everyday to increase my verisimilitude. Today's word is 'balloon'.

    • @MagentaFaux
      @MagentaFaux 3 роки тому

      @@idiotidiot5821 Oh thank you! Verisimilitude is a word I've been trying to remember for a long time now. I heard that when I was still watching Tobuscus.

  • @GordonFreechmen
    @GordonFreechmen 3 роки тому

    This is the same music that played during the "This Ciliate is About to Die" video. Kinda poetic that at first it plays during an episode about death, it now plays in an episode about birth.

  • @microborealis1064
    @microborealis1064 3 роки тому +1

    Who needs word of the week emails when we have the vocabulary in Journey to the Microcosmos episodes 😅

  • @TheRogueWolf
    @TheRogueWolf 3 роки тому +3

    Apotosis: Not to be confused with K-poptosis, the chemical process that governs the spread of Korean pop bands.

  • @willstokes123
    @willstokes123 3 роки тому +22

    Wow the tardigrade hatching!

  • @ayseerensunkitay6603
    @ayseerensunkitay6603 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks for your marvellous workings, I!m very glad to watch these videos

  • @n1msu
    @n1msu 3 роки тому

    the way an egg divides cells etc to create whatever it's coded to make, whether a cilliate or a human, IMO are literally composed in the same way you would a lego technic kit. I have a Biology A level and the lego porsche technic manual, if you're able to see it has many similarities

  • @franklinz8098
    @franklinz8098 3 роки тому +2

    Environment: changes
    Tardigrade eggs: DEHYDRATE!

  • @aricre8886
    @aricre8886 3 роки тому +1

    They actually managed to catch a tartigrade hathing... amazing :D

  • @NiceMuslimLady
    @NiceMuslimLady 3 роки тому +1

    Eggs. Yummy. I think I'm going to scramble some up right now!

  • @indridcold8433
    @indridcold8433 3 роки тому +1

    This is the clearest, most beautiful, microbe video I have ever seen.

  • @Bladavia
    @Bladavia 3 роки тому +2

    Wait, Tardigrade eggs already have their styluses ? That's so cuuuute

  • @binghyong-baebang2236
    @binghyong-baebang2236 3 роки тому +21

    How does a single cell creature decide what it should do next? I have seen paramecium run into debris and backup and try again. If it does this several times without success, I've seen them backup, then rotate fast for a short time and then move forward in the new random direction. It kind of looks like a temper tantrum. :) But seriously, what part of the cell has the wherewithal to make the cell spin, then go off in the new direction?

    • @maxwellsimon4538
      @maxwellsimon4538 3 роки тому +8

      If I had to guess, each time it bumps into debris, chemicals get released, and one of them signals the cillia to back up and turn. Then if that happens too many times in a row, the concentration of another chemical builds up to tell it to back up more and spin for a longer time.

    • @binghyong-baebang2236
      @binghyong-baebang2236 3 роки тому +1

      @@maxwellsimon4538 So it has substantial subsystems of sorts. Every time I see these organisms, I feel smaller and less knowledgeable. It is truly fascinating.

    • @Kram1032
      @Kram1032 3 роки тому

      maybe there are specialized organelles for the task? - Though I'm sure the real answer is a clear and decisive "It Depends". There will be several different strategies almost certainly

    • @maxwellsimon4538
      @maxwellsimon4538 3 роки тому +1

      @@binghyong-baebang2236 I would imagine so. Like I said this was just my best guess. It would be awesome if JttMC did an episode on cell signaling, because it's such a fascinating subject.

    • @victoriameredith629
      @victoriameredith629 3 роки тому

      Roombas. They ride on tiny Roombas. 😁

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 3 роки тому +20

    Well now I feel funny about having egg salad for lunch.

  • @Ulthar_Cat
    @Ulthar_Cat 3 роки тому +2

    OH MY GATKIMCHI BABY TARDIGRADE SO CUUUTE 💜💜💜

  • @Fummy007
    @Fummy007 3 роки тому +1

    Spermism didnt even know the egg existed.
    the oldest trilogy in all of the western canon is the the Orestea. In which the father is the sole source of the son, with no mother being necesarry except as the fertile soil in which the sperm is planted. like a seed planted in soil it is entirely of the seed and nothing of the soil.

    • @Vitali_Osandor
      @Vitali_Osandor 2 роки тому

      Thankfully, the truth of our (human) species is somewhere in the middle, since both sperm and eggs are necessary for creating life. If only one of them was needed, that would have created further discrimination and inequalities within the human society.

  • @andrewsutton6640
    @andrewsutton6640 3 роки тому +1

    Are there any plant eggs that don't need sperm?

  • @Chris-fr3kp
    @Chris-fr3kp Рік тому +1

    In Plants, it is true, for duprezia cupressus (androgenesis)
    The Sperm create the baby, but use the egg as a chamber.

  • @herbertgamwell5364
    @herbertgamwell5364 3 роки тому +4

    Amazing vids, love your channel guys!!

  • @davidvegabravo1579
    @davidvegabravo1579 3 роки тому

    RIP that proud bacteria who held the push of the Keratella´s mouth like a champion from 3:22 to 3:48 (top center of the image, holding for its life to a hair - like structure) RIP HODOR BACTERIA

  • @PaulaLPope
    @PaulaLPope 3 роки тому

    Awww...newborn tardigrades!

  • @tribalismblindsthembutnoty124
    @tribalismblindsthembutnoty124 3 роки тому

    5:07 I found an egg corn!
    egg·corn
    /ˈeɡkôrn/
    noun
    a word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another, an element of the original being substituted for one that sounds very similar or identical
    He meant deserted island not desert island. He might have been saying it wrong forever, or he might have only said it wrong this time

  • @rosesacks7430
    @rosesacks7430 3 роки тому +3

    as usual an interesting video. 👏 can organisms that self reproduce have any issues with mutation? Just wondering.

    • @rosesacks7430
      @rosesacks7430 3 роки тому

      @@ashleyliu1255 I watched another video about reproduction and he referred to Muller's Ratchet as the mutation that occurs with asexual reproduction. This series covers a lot of territory and is so challenging. 👏😍

  • @connoisseuroftigolbitts
    @connoisseuroftigolbitts 3 роки тому +2

    man are these bugs on me right now?
    These videos give me the jibby hibbies

  • @scoopishere7881
    @scoopishere7881 3 роки тому

    I keep thinking the music is the microwave beeping since I'm making food.

  • @mahammadoutunkara6430
    @mahammadoutunkara6430 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you

  • @reconnaissance7372
    @reconnaissance7372 3 роки тому +4

    When I was young I asked my Dad where do Eels come from? He said Scientists don't even know but some animals are able to lay eggs in places that have water and if it dries out they can stay there for a long time until the water returns and it might be the way they start life in bodies of water.

  • @pheart2381
    @pheart2381 3 роки тому

    Welcome to the world,tardigrade!

  • @fmn2628
    @fmn2628 3 роки тому +1

    Parthenogenesis is kind of like as the transition form between sexual and asexual reproduction.

  • @Potatinized
    @Potatinized 3 роки тому

    8:02 bugger off, skillshare. I wanna see that tardigrade.

  • @seaham3d695
    @seaham3d695 3 роки тому +1

    This is like being on drugs without the drugs. Amazing.

  • @hornetobiker
    @hornetobiker 3 роки тому +1

    Who thought the sperm was the only supplier of info to the inert egg? I have never heard that theory and I'm old. Please tell me where you got this gem from.

    • @KellyClowers
      @KellyClowers 3 роки тому

      It was mainly around in the 1700s and earlier, I think by sometime in the 1800s it was mostly a dead idea. Though replaced by other debates about how things worked

    • @thesenamesaretaken
      @thesenamesaretaken Рік тому

      I wonder how they accounted for the child's resemblance to the mother

  • @theinternaut1991
    @theinternaut1991 3 роки тому +2

    This video is really the only thing I've been wanting to watch all day but I've been saving it like a good bite of your favorite dish at the end of a meal 😋

  • @RedForeman
    @RedForeman 3 роки тому

    1:52 what the hell
    Is that thing that’s moving so fast? I want to see more on that it moves so quickly and stops on a dime

  • @shayhan6227
    @shayhan6227 3 роки тому +2

    A radical red/blue hair feminist's dream come true

    • @Vitali_Osandor
      @Vitali_Osandor 2 роки тому +1

      Thankfully in humans (and mammals in general) reproduction cannot work that way. Imagine those feminists if it did...

  • @smokeism47
    @smokeism47 3 роки тому

    On a flat surface such as a table, do micro-organisms experience depth? Can they move up/higher?
    Is it a 2D world for them? Do they ever move over each other?

  • @reconnaissance7372
    @reconnaissance7372 3 роки тому

    I'm drinking a vanilla thickshake and I skipped straight to the word "sperm"

  • @marinayacenko3107
    @marinayacenko3107 11 місяців тому

    Overestimation of the role of sperm is a good example of the fact that scientists also have prejudices. Patriarchal devaluation of the female contribution (eggs) and revaluation of sperm.

  •  3 роки тому

    I witnessed the birth of tardigrade... My life is complete!

  • @horsetuna
    @horsetuna 3 роки тому +4

    A good book on this is Life Unfolding by Davies!!

  • @complex314i
    @complex314i 2 роки тому

    Time Interval 2:22 - 2:43
    To the right of the words "Rotifer Egg" is that the earliest stage of the growth of a new Sovereign Class Reaper?

  • @Charlotte-wv1dl
    @Charlotte-wv1dl 3 роки тому

    What would happen if u put a white blood cell in the slide. Would it start attacking other microbes

  • @bingsballyhoo711
    @bingsballyhoo711 3 роки тому +1

    We'd wait 100 years with you if you'd keep making videos for us to watch!
    We can always hope.

  • @lyreparadox
    @lyreparadox 3 роки тому +1

    I don't suppose you could release some of these videos of microscopic life as live wallpapers for phones? I'd love to have a little microcosm on my phone screen. 🦠

  • @jooky87
    @jooky87 3 роки тому

    Something about life and living things must be the inevitable state of matter as it just self organizes from atoms to molecules to proteins to cells

  • @phoule76
    @phoule76 3 роки тому

    I don't need sperm to make scrambled eggs, but it doesn't hurt.

  • @Yezpahr
    @Yezpahr 3 роки тому

    These eggs are definitely a prime candidate for the panspermia theory.

  • @mightymicroworlds4566
    @mightymicroworlds4566 3 роки тому

    The hatching tardigrade ❤️

  • @indridcold8433
    @indridcold8433 3 роки тому

    Our lady of the immaculate fertilized egg can be a real thing.

  • @jasepoag8930
    @jasepoag8930 3 роки тому +1

    Wasn't there just a SciShow episode the other day about rotifers that were dormant in permafrost since the ice age, and successfully came back to life?

    • @AaronShenghao
      @AaronShenghao 3 роки тому

      I mean Hank the narrator is also a host from SciShow

    • @jasepoag8930
      @jasepoag8930 3 роки тому

      @@AaronShenghao that's what I mean. Seems like they're underselling it with the "hundred years" claim.

  • @qwertyyouiop8959
    @qwertyyouiop8959 3 роки тому

    That,s takeing the meaning of messing around with your head to a hole nuther level!!

  • @chrislie6549
    @chrislie6549 3 роки тому

    Why does all eggs yellow coloured?

  • @sparttin117john
    @sparttin117john 3 роки тому

    Entertaining and informative as always, thank you sir.

  • @CoastGuardLeo
    @CoastGuardLeo 3 роки тому +1

    Mourning geckos, popular in the reptile hobby, have no males.

  • @chazchavez3017
    @chazchavez3017 3 роки тому +1

    Babies

  • @BirdWhisperer46
    @BirdWhisperer46 2 роки тому

    Well, one nice advantage of parthenogenesis is that it wouldn't take long to make a bunch of mini me's.. LOL

  • @christosvoskresye
    @christosvoskresye 3 роки тому

    Got some tiny bacon to go with 'em?

  • @jiangspirit
    @jiangspirit 3 роки тому

    I am looking to purchase a microscope with video record/image capture settings and display resolutions like yours. What equipment are you using here?

  • @kartikeypatel7426
    @kartikeypatel7426 2 роки тому

    Well information. Good show. Well information.

  • @mixiekins
    @mixiekins 3 роки тому

    I have a question, when the cell makes those first few divisions, how do they adhere to one another so they don't get separated? Also, if they do get split up, do they continue to divide or is there some way that they can detect that their neighbor went missing? If the latter is true, do they detect that with ambient chemical signals, or is there some sort of signaling through contact of their membranes?

    • @Galifay
      @Galifay 3 роки тому +1

      I'm not an expert, but from what I've read/watched it's possible for the first few cells that the zygote (fertilized egg) divides into to be separated and still have them develop into mature organisms. Might not be ideal in an egg situation, since the amount of nutrients is limited, but that's how mammals get identical twins - one zygote's first few divisions got separated, and the 2 copies successfully implanted.
      I actually just learned this by perusing Wikipedia: when the egg begins development of a new organism, it divides until it has 16 copies of itself, and this ball of 16 cells is called a morula ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morula ). Once that occurs, somehow (probably through chemical densities?) they coordinate the creation of an inner hollow space, and the mass becomes known as a blastocyst ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastocyst ). I would think that identical twins occur when some of the cells during the creation of the morula de-adhere from the main mass, and essentially begin creating *another* morula.
      But, like I said, I'm no expert. Just very biology-curious.

  • @YellowPenetrator
    @YellowPenetrator 3 роки тому

    Life really exists forever

  • @chickennuggetscoon6900
    @chickennuggetscoon6900 3 роки тому

    Why is no one talking about hemimastigotes?

  • @mundomicroscopico-microsco4830
    @mundomicroscopico-microsco4830 3 роки тому +4

    i make videos of microscopic beings.

  • @patricksarama4963
    @patricksarama4963 3 роки тому

    1:41
    Relatable

  • @Musistics
    @Musistics 3 роки тому

    Eggs...👀

  • @giovannijaimes333
    @giovannijaimes333 3 роки тому

    Thanks

  • @zachkorinis3935
    @zachkorinis3935 3 роки тому

    speaking of eggs...thats what i just made

  • @peopledontthink7399
    @peopledontthink7399 3 роки тому

    This relates to the first women found in Africa

  • @ericphan5857
    @ericphan5857 2 роки тому

    With sculpture and surrounding sound technology and polarization of light, I thing women need no men to get prenance because in Vietnam we had succeeded in making dog prenance with men souls without a male dog

  • @FumbleSquid
    @FumbleSquid 3 роки тому

    Can I offer you an egg in this tryin' time?

  • @muhammadshahzaib3813
    @muhammadshahzaib3813 Рік тому

    1:44 did he just say injecting sperm to their own head 😮

  • @theresamcmullen4841
    @theresamcmullen4841 3 роки тому

    Definitely!

  • @LouisGedo
    @LouisGedo 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing!!!

  • @ketoonkratom
    @ketoonkratom 2 роки тому

    Love One Another

  • @raezad
    @raezad 3 роки тому +1

    1:40 l-lewwd

    • @victoriameredith629
      @victoriameredith629 3 роки тому

      Is it creepy that I kinda wanted to see it do that on camera?

  • @Iroxinping
    @Iroxinping 3 роки тому

    Only 30 seconds in please tell me you'll talk about the biggest single cell.... the ostrich egg

  • @ochat2010
    @ochat2010 Рік тому

    Oh God here we go....

  • @pickaxingoneuropa8457
    @pickaxingoneuropa8457 3 роки тому

    some yolks