SCIENCE

PLANANANANARIANS

Scientific Analysis provided by Doctor D

ALRIGHT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN BUCKLE YOUR CAR AND STRAP YOUR SEATBELTS AND PREPARE FOR A LATE NIGHT E EXPLANATION FOR SOMETHING THAT I JUST FOUND ON THE INTERNET AROUND 20 MINUTES AGO

ALRIGHT.

YOU SEE THAT LITTLE WORM THING UP THERE. IF YOU CUT THAT IN HALF YOU'D IT WOULD FUKIN BECOME ANOTHER WORM. THAT'S CALLED A PLANARIAN AND THEY ARE PRETTY FUCKIN MENTAL. LENGTH WAYS OR THE OTHER ONE IF U CUT IT IT WOULD GROW INTO ANOTHER WORM INFACT EVEN AS LITTLE AS 1/279TH OF THE ORIGINAL WORMYTHING COULD BE CUT OFF AND IT WOULD TURN INTO ANOTHER WORM. BLOODY HELL. IMAGINE IF SOME ABSOLUTE LOONIE STARTED CUTTING THESE BLOODY WORMS REPEAtADLE UNTIL HE HAD LIKE AN ARMY OF WORMYTHINGS THEN WHAT WOULD WE DO. WE WOULD HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEMS. GUNFIRE? NAH THEY GROW BACK. KNIFES? NAH THEY GROW BACK. FIRE? actually probably i think that would work yeah alright that works all good dw.

EVEN GRAZIER IS THAT IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO BE CUT ALL THE WAY, CUT IT HALF WAY BAM! TWO HEADS!.

IT CAN DO THIS COS OF THESE COOL LITTLE GIZMOS CALLED STEM CELLS AND THESE THINGS BASICALLY CAN TURN INTO MULTIPLE DIFFERENT CELL TYPES. NOW THERE ARE 3 TYPES OF THESE STEM CELLS, TOTIPOTENT, PLURIPOTENT, MULTIPOTENT.

TOTIPOTENT STEM CELLS CAN BASICALLY TURN INTO ANYTHING THEY DAMN WELL PLEASE INCLUDING EXTRAEMBRYONIC CELLS. WHATEVER THAT MEANS. THESE ARE LIKE THE SUPERMANS OF THE SMALL AND ODDLY SPECIFIC STEM CELL WORLD.

PLURIPOTENT CELLS CAN BECOME EVERY CELL THAT MAKES UP THE BODY, SO THEY ARE PRETTY DAMN PRIVELEGED,

MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS CAN BECOME SOME CELLS BUT NOT ALL. PRETTY CHILL GUYS

OUR BUDDIES PANARIANS HAVE PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS. SO THESE NIFTY LITTLE CELLS MAKE UP A LARGE PORTION OF THE BODY OF THE WORMYTHING WHICH MEANS THEY CAN LIKE CONTINUE ON LIVING WHHEN THE GET SPLIT ETC ETC ETC.

RADICAL!