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Offline Yorick Brown

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What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« on: August 19, 2008, 12:27:17 AM »
Are they animals (multicellular organisms that get their energy from other living organisms) or protists (multicellular or eukaryotic unicellular organisms that get their energy from other living organisms or breaking down organic material or making their own food from inorganic energy)?

If animals (and they'd be the only known animals in the kingdom that get their energy from photosynthesis than ingestion and digestion), are they Mollusks? Echnioderms? Annelids?
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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2008, 12:37:00 AM »
uh, animals. they take in nutrients other then kandorna (sp) particles, I see it as some micro organisms as well as  vitamins/minerals.
You can't call em mollusk though; that refers to animals that evolved from whatever (it's called a H.A.M. forget the full meaning) that came from earth.
They'd be most similar maybe, but it would be in a phylum of it's own

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A couple extra years of biology leaves me to state that they are not animals- and cannot be designated as any type of Earth organism.
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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2008, 12:45:43 AM »
Quote from: RYTX on August 19, 2008, 12:37:00 AM
kandorna (sp)
just switch the r and o

I'd say animal but I have no idea what the other choices mean so...
and no I don't think they're mollusks. according to the definition of mollusks, mollusks have a muscular foot, often have a hard shell, and often have complex eyes.
don't think they're echinoderms either. echinoderms have a skeleton, and usually have a hard covering.
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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2008, 01:23:03 AM »
Maybe some kind of fungus.  Don't fungi reproduce by breaking up into little bits, or spores, or something? ~remembers absolutely nothing of AP Biology~

Some kind of fungus-animal?? xD

Or maybe you can't even categorize them into our animal kingdom, because they're not from Earth.
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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2008, 05:25:55 AM »
I don't think you can categorize them in any Earth phylum, they're totally alien x3 But I think maybe the closest analogues might be multicellular algae, like seaweed, it photosynthesizes and requires extra nutrients.  Some kinds of single celled algae might also be similar.  They just don't take over anyone's brains....that we know of   ;D  If they do photosynthesize then they probably have some kind of chloroplast-like organelle, not to mention we know they have a brain of some sort, and neurons--so they seem to have a level of cellular organization that's pretty eukaryotic.  So, some kind of sentient multicellular algae/animal hybrid that's totally outside of our classification of both of those groups.

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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2008, 09:32:45 AM »
We get vitamin D from the sun but we dont photosynthesize. Maybe Kandrona just has a vitamin they need.
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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2008, 10:20:39 AM »
I'm glad I'm specializing in physical chemistry and not organic chemistry...
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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2008, 11:14:41 AM »
What's the difference between the two?
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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2008, 11:57:34 AM »
Physical chemistry deals with mostly non-carbon based things like metals and such while Organic chemistry deals with, well, organic things.
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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2008, 04:07:21 PM »
I'm really glad I didn't have to take p-chem  :P 

Although I didn't like organic much better x3

If Kandrona's the energy from their home sun, it's probably just shooting whatever wavelengths Yeerks need to photosynthesize (which they probably do, but it's never really stated) in whatever quantities they need to get electrons kicking around in what passes for chloroplasts in Yeerks...and it could affect vitamin production if Yeerk skin is anything like human skin when exposed to UVB light...maybe Kandrona is more UV or infrared than Earth's sunlight?  Otherwise what makes Kandrona so special that Yeerks can't just sit in Earth sunlight to feed...

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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2008, 06:43:04 PM »
I doubt Yeerks photosynthesize.  Kandrona is probably some kind of unique radiation (or something) unique to their sun that helps their bodies produce a critical vitamin.

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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
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Re: What kind of creatures are Yeerks?
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2008, 04:53:33 PM »
King of the Hill, or half the conversations between me and my friends involving deciding on something to do...  ;D

I wonder what the phylogenetic tree of life on the Yeerk homeworld would look like...we know they had only a few hundred animal species, but what else did they have?  Those headless stumpy cow things, Vanarxes, the big red tongues slurping up out of the ground...Gedds...um ....stubby trees that branched out horizontally for a long time...whatever other cracked out stuff K.A. and Michael decided to come up with...x3
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