Solar Flash Cell
| Solar Flash Cell | ||
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| (Photosagania solar) | ||
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| 21/?, unknown cause | ||
| Information | ||
| Creator | Jlind11 Other | |
| Week/Generation | 19/129 | |
| Habitat | Allen Ice Cave | |
| Size | Microscopic | |
| Primary Mobility | Unknown | |
| Support | Unknown | |
| Diet | Photosynthesis | |
| Respiration | Passive Diffusion | |
| Thermoregulation | Ectotherm | |
| Reproduction | Mitosis | |
| Taxonomy | ||
| Domain Superkingdom Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species | Eukaryota Viridisagania Refulgibiota Photosaganiphyta Photosaganiphyceae Photosaganiales Photosaganiaceae Photosagania Photosagania solar | |
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The solar flash cell split from its ancestor when some flash cells moved into Allen Ice Cave. They have developed a way to compensate for the lack of sunlight inside the cave. Their ability to create bioluminescence is now controlled by a special organelle which is located around the nucleus. This organelle can store up heat energy from sunlight and then releases this energy in its flashes, which can become longer in duration depending on the amount of light absorbed. Nearby solar flash cells can then use this released light to photosynthesize, using primitive chloroplast-like organelles which surround the light-storing organelle; they can also absorb any access sunlight into their light-storing organelle. The result is a nearly endless cycle of absorbing, flashing, and photosynthesizing, which has allowed the solar flash cells to penetrate rather far into the ice cave; when viewed by the naked human eye, it looks like waves of light rippling through the water.
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