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Should Amoeboids be asexual or gendered

Poll ended at Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:01 am

Asexual
6
86%
Gendered
1
14%
 
Total votes: 7

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Lynx8882 wrote:what i meant by it is i know someone in my group would immidiatly blurt out that just because they were asexual that they would spawn others


Yes and no. Without having seen the Rifter in question, I can't say for sure, but I imagine that any ameboid would need sufficient mass to split, and a lot of energy. Microscopic ameboae, these things would have to gain a fair amount of mass... and once they split, would their "offspring" necessarily be their slave, especially if they were the sort who would reproduce just because?
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perhaps they "bud"?
asexual procreation, where a new orginism begins to grow inside/along the outside, and is seperated out once it reaches a cetain size?

for example, the ameboid starts growing what looks like a tumor, a darker spot that grows inside, and eventually migrates outside and turns out to be a new ameboid.


or perhaps they have several methods? two ameboids might be able to merg for a period, and share genetic material, and both produce offspring (like many single celled orginisms), or they could do a direct cloning of themselves.
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Drasalites anyone?
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gordyzx9r wrote:Drasalites anyone?


I was thinking carbosilicate amorphs, myself.

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