Relationship status: Two blobs that are very close

"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?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

2:20 awww they made a heart

3:45 Always thinking with the micronucleus...

I fuse with myself daily to release stress.

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.

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

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

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

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

Personifying cells? Yeah, I'm into it

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

🎶 Bring your cilia close to mine 🎶

okay but why did i cry

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

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

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.

these cells really do be chilling post coitus

How is it that Hank makes everything so fascinating ?!

This might be one of your best episodes yet

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

Always fascinating

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

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

Truly fascinating.

thank you so much for the explanation!!

Me scrolling through KZfaq recommendations innocently... This video: BECOME YOUR OWN BABY THROUGH CONJUGATION

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

Awww that was so romantic!!

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

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

Seems ideal TBH That sounds amazing

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

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

Great video

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

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

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?

sick beat!

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.

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

fascinated!

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

That was wild 😳

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.

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

I even swiped left on myself

Thanks🔬

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

Noiiiiiiice!

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

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

I love when you upload 😉

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

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

Chemical jealousy!

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 :-)

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

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

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?

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

Wow.

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

Love One Another

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."

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

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

That’s neat.

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

Gamete w gamete, fine! Gamete w gambit, what?

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

Well, that’s one way to do it...

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

I would love to help with a translation to PT-BR, I am a teacher and it would be amazing to be able to show these videos to my students

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?