Filthy Gelatin

The filthy gelatin split from its ancestor and is now a multicellular lifeform. Its surface, unlike the surface of its ancestor, is now soft and opaque. The gelatin has a large chamber in its body where free flowing blood-sap is kept, the blood-sap circulates by being pushed by flagella that line the inner walls of the chamber. This liquid has a dense number of blood cells floating in it, but not for transporting nutrients as that floats in the blood-sap itself, these cells are specifically for fighting against disease, that is why the liquid appears yellow, the cells still have there chlorophyll. Instead of producing sugars and starch as its main source of energy, it produces oils.

The surface of the filthy gelatin has large pores dotting it, these pores are used for seeping seawater into the blood-sap for mixing and filtering, this often lets in unwanted things such as debris and harmful microbes which is why it has the large number of defense cells. The blood-sap chamber is made up by sub chambers that can partially seal themselves off from the others encase something horribly wrong has been brought in. When the gelatin has a build up of undissolved material inside it it can coat the objects with a mucus, bunch them up into a glob, and excrete the glob through one of its pores, it does the same to remove excess salt from its body. Normal removal of waste is through its surface.

The way the filthy gelatin reproduces is an odd one. It releases large cells from its surface that clump together with their sister cells and those released from other gelatin. This mass forms something similar to the gelatins ancestor, except it is very soft and easily torn apart, any pieces broken off during this stage simply turn into smaller masses. During this time the cells of the mass work together to grow their own glob, or piece of the mass, and build up a store of energy, when about two cm across they cells enter their second stage of development. In this stage they become hostile towards one another, the cells gathering together with others from the same ancestor cell. The separate clumps inside the mass grow at a cancerous rate, each glob trying to starve the other out or even consume the others into oblivion. During this time some cells might mutate and develop there own clumps, just prolonging the war. Once the war is over and only one clump remains it, settles, stocks up on oil, and begins transforming into the fully developed filthy gelatin.