Becoming Your Own Baby Through Conjugation

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  • Опубліковано 7 бер 2021
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 292

  • @detectivewiggles
    @detectivewiggles 3 роки тому +390

    Relationship status: Two blobs that are very close

    • @mohamedhassanaldujaily9619
      @mohamedhassanaldujaily9619 3 роки тому +1

      I think that the video will be better without music....specially the intro 😊👍🏻

    • @glottalstop2080
      @glottalstop2080 3 роки тому +3

      @@mohamedhassanaldujaily9619 no why

    • @zeykriid
      @zeykriid 3 роки тому +13

      relationship status: ciliate destroyed by rapidly changing osmotic pressure

    • @Hobgoblin88
      @Hobgoblin88 3 роки тому +4

      Relationship status: Fused

    • @funnygrunt_o7
      @funnygrunt_o7 3 роки тому +4

      Status update: starting to think my partner and my baby are literally also me

  • @TheRogueWolf
    @TheRogueWolf 3 роки тому +229

    "Hey, babe, I'm really digging your scent. What do you say we ditch this slide and go become a little bit of each other?"

    • @daniellewilson8527
      @daniellewilson8527 2 роки тому +1

      If I were searching for a date, this flirt line would be successful

  • @Rubrickety
    @Rubrickety 3 роки тому +183

    You and me, baby, we ain't nothin' but ciliates, so let's do it like they do on... our local PBS affiliate?

  • @semaj_5022
    @semaj_5022 3 роки тому +166

    Partners mating to become their own offspring is honestly kinda beautiful in a way.

    • @Kurtlane
      @Kurtlane 2 роки тому +3

      As a microbe you have a full right to it. But keep it out of my bedroom.

    • @KOKO-uu7yd
      @KOKO-uu7yd 2 роки тому +1

      Kinda my first feeling. A little like rebirth!🤩
      Edit: ok. That's silly of me. IT IS rebirth isn't it?☺️

    • @feyternerdworld
      @feyternerdworld 2 роки тому

      I don't know sounds a little bit selfish for me...

  • @Morberis
    @Morberis 3 роки тому +113

    Conjugate your verbs my teacher always said. Little did I know....

  • @evilnet1
    @evilnet1 3 роки тому +20

    They may never see eachother again because they became eachother. A love story more profound than most dramas.

  • @thedoruk6324
    @thedoruk6324 3 роки тому +87

    So *Immortality* through rebirthing to your own self by your self that is some intense paradoxical situation

    • @toothpasteman3400
      @toothpasteman3400 3 роки тому +7

      or becoming a baby every time your old

    • @thedoruk6324
      @thedoruk6324 3 роки тому +11

      @@toothpasteman3400 Some Jellyfish has also been recorded doing that too

    • @toothpasteman3400
      @toothpasteman3400 3 роки тому +6

      @@thedoruk6324 that's exactly what I was talking about

    • @garret1930
      @garret1930 3 роки тому +8

      Defining death is really difficult when you know how life really works.

    • @toothpasteman3400
      @toothpasteman3400 3 роки тому +4

      @@garret1930 *cough* virus *cough*

  • @williamsudbrink4187
    @williamsudbrink4187 3 роки тому +53

    When a mommy micro-animal and a daddy micro-animal love each other very much...

    • @Oscar4u69
      @Oscar4u69 3 роки тому +10

      they might become their own offspring o.0

  • @danielc7964
    @danielc7964 3 роки тому +179

    Can you please, for april fools day, do an episode about the "Macrocosmos". Things that are really small, but huge under a microscope like little water crustaceans, or some small worms/ nematodes that would look HUGE under the microscope. Again, small things in the real world, absolutely massive in the micro.

    • @alexv3357
      @alexv3357 3 роки тому +5

      I'll second that suggestion

    • @malaakm7655
      @malaakm7655 3 роки тому +30

      Alternatively: Macrocosmos but we look at cats and stuff

    • @danielc7964
      @danielc7964 3 роки тому +7

      @@malaakm7655 dude I didnt even think that it's just their narration of normal sized things that they interact with. Maybe a 2 part series.

    • @malaakm7655
      @malaakm7655 3 роки тому +9

      @@danielc7964 honestly i could listen to Hank Green narrate pretty much anything

    • @tammymccaslin4787
      @tammymccaslin4787 3 роки тому +4

      I vote for the cat video.

  • @dangerousfables
    @dangerousfables 3 роки тому +218

    I fuse with myself daily to release stress.

    • @eduardokiryu5456
      @eduardokiryu5456 3 роки тому +39

      Im so stressed im about to form a cyst and wait for better times

    • @drewlovely2668
      @drewlovely2668 3 роки тому +19

      @@sirensynapse5603 can't go blind if you don't have eyes!

    • @ddkapps
      @ddkapps 3 роки тому +17

      @@eduardokiryu5456 cyst and decease! (sorry, been wanting to use that phrase for a while)

    • @procrastinator99
      @procrastinator99 3 роки тому +3

      @@ddkapps LOL thank you for sharing.

    • @woulg
      @woulg Рік тому +2

      I also enjoy practicing my conjugation alone

  • @Benzene265
    @Benzene265 3 роки тому +21

    3:45 Always thinking with the micronucleus...

  • @joshuag.2830
    @joshuag.2830 3 роки тому +48

    2:20 awww they made a heart

  • @FriedFreya
    @FriedFreya 3 роки тому +127

    Wow. That's so weirdly beautiful, to me. That they're essentially their own offspring... Life is so fascinating.

    • @sownheard
      @sownheard 3 роки тому +3

      It might make for a crazy horror storey.

  • @GordonFreechmen
    @GordonFreechmen 3 роки тому +10

    I love that extended moment of silence just before Hank says his thank you tagline. Combined with the music, it's quite emotional.

    • @sweateryoshi4026
      @sweateryoshi4026 2 роки тому +1

      Yes! It gives time to just linger in the thoughts just a little bit longer. Its really considerate.

  • @himanbam
    @himanbam 3 роки тому +69

    Yo my spanish teacher must be immortal. She does this all the time

    • @SemGabelko
      @SemGabelko 3 роки тому +4

      HAHAHAHAHHAHAH this guy is funny.

    • @Aurora-oe2qp
      @Aurora-oe2qp 3 роки тому +9

      Even during class? You should probably report her then.

    • @parkerledure2266
      @parkerledure2266 3 роки тому +7

      @Ash С i think she knows so wooosh yourself!

    • @user-jc8by2wj8g
      @user-jc8by2wj8g 3 роки тому

      @Cello Daughter of Chaos They were joking too

  • @Snoosmumrik
    @Snoosmumrik 3 роки тому +36

    "The knowableness of the universe."
    Just this phrase brings tears to my eyes.

  • @rianantony
    @rianantony 3 роки тому +17

    Personifying cells? Yeah, I'm into it

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk 3 роки тому +7

    Fantastic video
    And may I say that while I myself clearly still have the maturity levels of a ten year old and could NOT stop giggling at various points, your delivery was perfect, calm, smooth - just tossing out the necessary terms without turning a metaphorical hair. Also, I know how to pronounce "coitus" out loud so thank you for that too.
    Immature jokes aside, the photography here is once again blowing my mind. Right about at 3:40 I was just gob-smacked by the way you captured the dimensionality of the Ophryoglena, how you made it possible to really SEE the roundness of it. No longer just a flat shape on an illustration plate, not just a pencil sketch in a lab journal, but a BODY. It feels somehow more real, almost tangible, in a way that may not be "special" to some folks but for me... magical. Really.
    Thank you so much for continuing to take us on this journey!

  • @dirkstrider8783
    @dirkstrider8783 3 роки тому +5

    why did the end of this one almost make me cry??
    how broken is my empathy??

    • @GordonFreechmen
      @GordonFreechmen 3 роки тому +2

      It's the music. It's probably the most emotional one out of all the pieces in the soundtrack.

    • @sweateryoshi4026
      @sweateryoshi4026 2 роки тому +1

      I found it more serene and calmig than sad. Probably bcs I finished his sentence "they may never see each other again" with "as they are one and the same"

  • @aidansadowski8289
    @aidansadowski8289 3 роки тому +7

    What if I released Gamone 1... and you released Gamone 2... and we were both ciliates 😳

  • @Jop_pop
    @Jop_pop 3 роки тому +5

    I feel so awkward watching this and I think that speaks to how well this channel humanizes tiny creatures

  • @trulyinfamous
    @trulyinfamous 3 роки тому +5

    "Becoming your own baby" sounds like the name of an Indie rock album.

  • @brianpj5860
    @brianpj5860 3 роки тому +3

    This channel is now my new favourite channel on all of youtube. I just cant get enough of these videos, and Ive watched every new video released since the channels inception.
    The music, the visuals, the calm narration of Hanks voice. All of it is such a gem to be able to witness.

  • @sheenajae
    @sheenajae 3 роки тому +7

    When you're so sleepy that you really believe for .75 seconds that there is a chemical called "Yes."

  • @trucid2
    @trucid2 3 роки тому +2

    After conjugation the DNA in the nucleus is changed, but the cell and it's structure was produced using its old DNA. It's like a chimera.

  • @SamuelJFord
    @SamuelJFord 3 роки тому +14

    Snap! I just ran a conjugation experiment in the lab this weekend. I assure you that it was much less exciting than this video.

    • @Biped
      @Biped 3 роки тому +3

      Don't downplay yourself! Who was the lucky one? :D

    • @cillianhenry677
      @cillianhenry677 3 роки тому

      @@Biped you made my day, thank you

  • @nathanielanderson4898
    @nathanielanderson4898 3 роки тому +29

    Sexual reproduction, definitely comes in many different forms, when in practice.

  • @edwardlulofs444
    @edwardlulofs444 3 роки тому +6

    Thank you for this information. It seems that science will always find something new about even the single celled organisms.

  • @zukjeff
    @zukjeff 2 роки тому +1

    the best spoken mini novella so far. also more new words than i have ever heard without listening to a different language. thankyou

  • @eroraf8637
    @eroraf8637 3 роки тому +8

    Oh, I’m my own grandpa!
    I’m my own grandpa!
    It sounds funny, I know,
    But it really is so!
    Oh, I’m my own grandpa!

    • @victoriameredith629
      @victoriameredith629 3 роки тому +1

      Glad I’m not the only one singing that quietly to myself. :D

  • @thehyperscientist1961
    @thehyperscientist1961 3 роки тому +4

    I remember learning about conjugation back in school, I've only now found a detailed explanation for it that keeps me awake :-)

  • @eurydice2322
    @eurydice2322 3 роки тому +2

    I love watching these videos and being transported to a world a bit smaller and a bit more simple but beautiful all the same

  • @badcaseofstripes
    @badcaseofstripes 3 роки тому +1

    love the stunning visuals on this channel. microscopy is one of my special interests along with mycology, it would be amazing to see a video about more types of mushrooms and their spores, if you guys don't have one in the works already that is. I would actually go mental

  • @sunnyd9884
    @sunnyd9884 3 роки тому +1

    this is just one if my favorite channels. Ive watched every single video...

  • @TheNewYear75
    @TheNewYear75 3 роки тому

    Just discovered this channel. Incredible content, thank you for the free education

  • @meetthecassiani
    @meetthecassiani 3 роки тому +2

    How is it that Hank makes everything so fascinating ?!

  • @albertmarti2718
    @albertmarti2718 3 роки тому +1

    This might be one of your best episodes yet

  • @chesthoIe
    @chesthoIe 3 роки тому +14

    Maybe ciliates can't choose who they love any more than we can.

  • @Arminius37
    @Arminius37 2 роки тому

    This was very helpful for my Zoology module. Actually a lot of your videos are, thank you!

  • @marvinsandmann9441
    @marvinsandmann9441 3 роки тому +4

    I didn't know that such a way of reproduction exist and I'm so very amazed. I am barely able to find the right words to describe my feelings. It's so interesting and yet so exciting. The microcosmos shows the real perfection of life. I wish I'd have a microscope to look for these wonderful creatures by myself.

  • @ioratv
    @ioratv 3 роки тому +4

    these cells really do be chilling post coitus

  • @erstwhilegrubstake
    @erstwhilegrubstake 3 роки тому +6

    🎶 Bring your cilia close to mine 🎶

  • @HattieMcDanielonaMoon
    @HattieMcDanielonaMoon 3 роки тому

    I love your channel so much
    I wish I had the dedication to study protozoology

  • @matthiasmorse5263
    @matthiasmorse5263 3 роки тому +2

    okay but why did i cry

  • @sathanimations1457
    @sathanimations1457 3 роки тому +5

    9:04 I mean, did they ever really 'see' each other in the first place? I know he wasn't being literal :D

  • @joeywild2011
    @joeywild2011 3 роки тому +2

    Me scrolling through UA-cam recommendations innocently...
    This video: BECOME YOUR OWN BABY THROUGH CONJUGATION

  • @ohlookitsrosie
    @ohlookitsrosie Рік тому

    thank you so much for the explanation!!

  • @outdoorsy01
    @outdoorsy01 3 роки тому +2

    Always fascinating

  • @qonitamuthmainah3342
    @qonitamuthmainah3342 2 роки тому

    i am laughing when the man said that you don't need to find a mate if you can duplicate yourself! :'D

  • @zJoriz
    @zJoriz 3 роки тому +3

    "So while conjugation may be advantageous to the species, it doesn't always work out so well for the individual."
    My life contains proof that this applies to other methods of reproduction as well.

  • @gildedbear5355
    @gildedbear5355 3 роки тому +1

    Conjugation, when a parent and another parent come together to become a child and their twin.

  • @hurpdurp3669
    @hurpdurp3669 2 роки тому

    “Hey, I want your nucleus.”
    “I want YOUR nucleus!”
    “Lets do it then!”

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 3 роки тому +3

    Was sure this was a physics vid from the thumbnail text for a second there...

  • @kmcsciguy
    @kmcsciguy 3 роки тому +4

    Is this different than bacterial conjugation since bacteria just share plasmids during conjugation correct? This was so fascinating.

  • @freethinker440
    @freethinker440 3 роки тому +1

    Truly fascinating.

  • @dionyzus2909
    @dionyzus2909 3 роки тому

    Who's my little baby? Whooo's my little baby?
    I'm my little baby!

  • @rajendrakhanvilkar9362
    @rajendrakhanvilkar9362 3 роки тому

    Great video

  • @ZoyaStreet
    @ZoyaStreet 3 роки тому

    Every time this comes up in my recommendations, I have to remember that it's not a how-to video.

  • @Cinderpelt1002
    @Cinderpelt1002 3 роки тому

    6:54 This made me laugh way too much. It didn't help that the clip got cut off at the perfect moment. XD

  • @elpachonisimoSOS
    @elpachonisimoSOS 3 роки тому

    Quizá nunca mas vuelvan a verse pero, ellos saben y disfrutaron de ese momento y en este caso en particular esto perdurara por mucho mucho tiempo, quizá volviéndose mas inmortales que muchos de los que miramos y comentamos en este video.

  • @Max-Original
    @Max-Original 2 роки тому

    Hello. What is the name of your microscope? And which camera do you use?

  • @harshsinghal4342
    @harshsinghal4342 3 роки тому

    But how do they get their micronucleus back after conjugation? The zygotic nucleus serves as the new macronucleus but there is no micronucleus, right?

  • @AlyxGlide
    @AlyxGlide 2 роки тому

    Seems ideal TBH That sounds amazing

  • @JohnSmith-kf1fc
    @JohnSmith-kf1fc 3 роки тому

    Awww that was so romantic!!

  • @Kalorag
    @Kalorag 3 роки тому

    Deam.....this one hit me diferently....

  • @fnamelname9077
    @fnamelname9077 3 роки тому

    That's a great album, but what is the name of the "Microbe Bongos" beat you sometimes play? It's not in this episode, but it's my favorite.

  • @loganweiler5297
    @loganweiler5297 3 роки тому

    Is it possible to have an organism that conjugates but does not subsequently divide by mitosis? Of course this could not increase the number of organisms (and therefore this trait couldn't be selected for in a normal way) but could an organism exist in perpetuity exclusively via conjugation, or perhaps for many "generations" before undergoing mitosis?

  • @hugo9846
    @hugo9846 2 роки тому

    The saddest tale, I'm about to cry, mate.

  • @kraneiathedancingdryad6333
    @kraneiathedancingdryad6333 3 місяці тому

    "What sets the mood?"
    I thought that was why you were pushing the CD at the beginning of the video....

  • @StopChangingUsernamesYouTube
    @StopChangingUsernamesYouTube 3 роки тому

    So they really are just dancing. The fusion dance, still counts.

  • @zamby_person1621
    @zamby_person1621 3 роки тому +2

    I love when you upload 😉

  • @mikhailgusev586
    @mikhailgusev586 3 роки тому

    sick beat!

  • @fariesz6786
    @fariesz6786 3 роки тому

    1:45 "some of which we documented in disgust already on this channel"

  • @taylortisaac
    @taylortisaac 2 роки тому

    All I could think: “and beneath a man is his… nuuccleus.”

  • @rameyzamora1018
    @rameyzamora1018 3 роки тому

    This video could have been made in the ocean on Enceladus or Europa! Imagine this is what astrobiologists will be searching for to begin with - how cool is that?

  • @nutzeeer
    @nutzeeer 3 роки тому +1

    2:50 try finding your mouse in this lol
    i got the "reverse from the background" type

  • @Bill-lt5qf
    @Bill-lt5qf 3 роки тому +1

    why didn't youtube put this in my recommendeds?
    had to go to my subscription feed, which i rarely do.

    • @detectivewiggles
      @detectivewiggles 3 роки тому +1

      Did you perhaps accidentally tell youtube not to suggest this channel? I have done that before.

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks🔬

  • @somethinginthewalls388
    @somethinginthewalls388 3 роки тому +1

    thanks for the DIY how to basically birth yourself tutorial! might use later

  • @DominikJaniec
    @DominikJaniec 3 роки тому

    fascinated!

  • @jamesjosep4393
    @jamesjosep4393 3 роки тому

    That was wild 😳

  • @galaxypig8168
    @galaxypig8168 3 роки тому

    Noiiiiiiice!

  • @freedom-in-moonlightlunari8916
    @freedom-in-moonlightlunari8916 3 роки тому

    Oh noes those poor Hypotrich ciliates thats hilarious and sad its hard not to feel bad for them.

  • @josephsshitpostemporium4325
    @josephsshitpostemporium4325 3 роки тому

    dude you forgot to say "thank you for coming" the microbes too

  • @culwin
    @culwin 3 роки тому

    I even swiped left on myself

  • @missseaweed2462
    @missseaweed2462 3 роки тому

    Of course these cells can conjugate! If they couldn't, they'd talk roughly like this, "Of course cell to conjugate! Is not, talk like this."

  • @DylanMcMullen
    @DylanMcMullen 3 роки тому

    I wonder if we can use this to reduce or reverse aging....

  • @paitonkmonk6285
    @paitonkmonk6285 2 роки тому

    I’m convinced this is what the aliens want to do with us in order to evolve us and themselves

  • @tammymccaslin4787
    @tammymccaslin4787 3 роки тому +2

    I don’t remember learning this in biology class...

    • @dragaashenoak5338
      @dragaashenoak5338 3 роки тому +1

      It's okay if you forgot. I only remember the word anyway, like cojugation, gametosis, and something about vegetable reproduction

  • @chopin65
    @chopin65 2 роки тому

    I'd have thought "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye more appropriate for this video.

  • @clairejeansonne9800
    @clairejeansonne9800 3 роки тому +1

    Comments to counteract the algorithm for all the microbe sex in this one.

  • @MugenTJ
    @MugenTJ 3 роки тому

    Once you have a child, your life is done, essentially the lesson here!

  • @jadedrealist
    @jadedrealist 3 роки тому

    I wanna be like these little critters. Conjugation sounds fun.

  • @vanderkarl3927
    @vanderkarl3927 3 роки тому +1

    Imagine if your sex organs were also your brain.
    Wait, that's already an idiom. Hmm...

  • @Vistico93
    @Vistico93 3 роки тому

    If this can be imagined on the multicellular scale, you have an alien species for your sci-fi franchise of choice. Two beings I guess would "melt" into a pile of goo, exchange their nuclei and reform as two new beings. Would they have the same memories as before, a mix of both, or be effectively formatted? i don't think it was ever specified how the Changelings from Deep Space 9 reproduced but maybe this is how :-)

  • @jophmac
    @jophmac 3 роки тому

    That’s neat.

  • @bluebulk
    @bluebulk Місяць тому

    Thank you Patreon subscribers! My broke ass is enjoying this series!

  • @78deathface
    @78deathface 3 роки тому

    Well, that’s one way to do it...

  • @katie8326
    @katie8326 3 роки тому

    wait so why do things develop two mating types? wouldn't it be easier if they were all just the same and could mate with any of the other cells?

  • @nytmare3448
    @nytmare3448 3 роки тому

    Their new nucleus, or newcleus as nobody calls it!