You know the time… ITS TIME TO ASSIGN RANDOM BACTERIA (and archea) !!!
Mabel as Deinococcus radiodurans
Look at this beauty oh my… It’s pinkk 😫 (due to carotenoids)
— Species of Deinococcales have the unusual property of being extremely radiation resistant, and Deinococcus radiodurans is the best-studied species in this regard. They can survive exposure to 15,000 grays of ionizing radiation. Like holy shit! Humans can be killed by exposure to less than 10 grays!!
And of course this is a metaphor for Transcendence duh. The radiation here stands for magic and weirdness. It shows how resistant Mabel is to all the things that have happened to her.
— They are also resistant to the effects of many mutagenic agents. The only chemical mutagens that seem to work on them are agents such as nitrosoguanidine, which induces deletions in DNA.
Which also means no matter how strong you are, your very soul might shatter, your pieces might get deleted oof 😔
— Studies have shown us that D. radiodurans is highly efficient in repairing damaged DNA. Several different DNA repair enzymes exist in D. radiodurans. In addition to the DNA repair enzyme RecA, several RecA-independent DNA systems exist in D. radiodurans that can repair breaks in single or double stranted DNA, and excise and repair misincorporated bases. In fact, repair processes are so effective that the chromosome can even be reassembled from a fragment state.
This resembles Mabel’s and Dipper’s relationship. Dipper is the damaged DNA (poetic ik) and she is the one repairing him.
In addition, cells of D. radiodurans always exist as pair or tetrads! See! twins.
They can’t exist without each other in every universe :<
Lucy Ann as Borrelia burgdorferii
—The majority of species of Borrelia are animals or human pathogens. Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of the tickborne disease called Lyme disease, which infects humans and animals.
Vampires -> bats -> ticks -> lyme🤔 everything is connected. Also vampires should be associated with ticks. I stand by that.
—Also they are as yet one of the few known bacteria that has a linear (as opposed to a circular) chromosome.
This.. my friends is a metaphor of her life. Every other person in her life die and reincarnate. That is the cycle of life… a circular chromosome. But she has a linear one, she lives and lives and lives.. through a non-ending line UGHH 😮💨
—Lastly, they have very small genomes (approximately 1.44 mbp)
Cause she is so small aww
Willow as Pyrolobus fumarii
— Pyrolobus fumarii is one of the most thermophilic of the hyperthermophiles. It’s growth temperature maximum is 113 °C. They live in the walls of “black smoker” hydrothermal vent chimneys.
Yes. I’ve chosen this archea because of Willow’s ability to use fire. But we have to go deeper and become insane.
— Below 200 metres, levels of ambient lights from the sun are too low for photosynthesis to occur. So, chemosynthesis it is. The process of chemosynthesis is similar to photosynthesis. Both can be defined as the creation of organic matter from the fixation of inorganic carbon using energy. But what differs is the source of that energy. In parts of the deep sea, primary production is fuelled by chemical energy, rather than energy from the sun. But this can only take place at certain sea-floor environments where the required chemicals are released into the water. The two main examples of such environments are hydrothermal vents, and cold seeps.
I say, this symbolises her birth. The deep sea is an allegory of a woman’s womb 🧐 and.. hydrothermal vents are an analogy of Alcor. If Alcor had not interfered Willow wouldn’t live. He provided the environment where the womb was not enough.
— One major site of high vent abundance is the East Pacific Rise, where the fast spreadingrates have created vent fields dotted along the ridge, 10s of kilometres apart. In contrast, the vent fields of the much slower spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge may be 100s of kilometres apart. They form here because the rifting of tectonic plates creates fissures in the crust, and allows hot magma from deep within the Earth to rise closer to the seabed. Upper parts of the sea floor are very permeable. Cold seawater enters, and percolates down through the crust where it becomes superheated and takes up minerals from the surrounding rocks. This mineral-rich fluid then jets back into the ocean at extremely high velocities, and temperatures exceeding 400°C. As the fluids mix with cold seawater, the dissolved minerals precipitate out in smoke-like billows, and build towering chimney structures on the sea floor.
Cold seawater represents humanity and mortality🤧 whereas hot magma stands for magic. Alcor shared his power with Willow to save her. She became superheated🤓.
But as you can see these vents produce smokes not fire. That’s because Willow herself is still a fragile human. She can’t handle using demonic fire all the time. Therefore her fire becomes smoke… like coughing from asthma 🥶. I would also suggest taking minerals from surrounding rocks is a metaphor for her other power but enough delusion for today.
— There are a few varieties of hydrothermal vents, characterised by the specific mineral content of the vent fluid. Black smokers emit the hottest, darkest plumes, forming chimneys over 50 meters tall (180 feet) with high levels of sulphides that precipitate on contact with the cold ocean to form the black smoke. In contrast, white smokers contain barium, calcium and silicon. Other vents are characterised by the shimmering streams of water content of the fluid.
my god, this confirms my Alcor is a hydrothermal vent hc. Literally the beast and the star cycle.
Okay, hear me out on this one. I could not think of a specific species sorry. It is all in the details of the endosymbiotic theory.🥰
— The endosymbiotic theory states that some of the organelles in today's eukaryotic cells were once prokaryotic microbes. In this theory, the first eukaryotic cell was probably an amoeba-like cell that got nutrients by phagocytosis and contained a nucleus that formed when a piece of the cytoplasmic membrane pinched off around the chromosomes. Some of these amoeba-like organisms ingested prokaryotic cells that then survived within the organism and developed a symbiotic relationship. Mitochondria formed when bacteria capable of aerobic respiration were ingested; chloroplasts formed when photosynthetic bacteria were ingested.
The photosynthetic bacteria is an ancestral cyanobacterium. (Not identical to modern species, my professor said chloroplasts might have evolved from prochlorophytas due to the presence of chlorophyll b. It is a bit confusing)
It is probably more accurate to say the cyanobacteria is Dipper and the mitochondria is Bill.
They fuse-ish together to become something else. Also Bill being the powerhouse of the cell is funny byee.
Honorable mention —Stella⭐️
