Yesterday , newly published inquiry shed light onthe wild sexual activity liveliness ofTetrahymena thermophila — a single - celled organism with potential to develop into seven different sexes . As scientific discipline comicMaki Naroexplains in his late strip , the publication is particularly well timed , in luminousness of SCOTUS deliberations over marriage par .
https://gizmodo.com/think-your-sex-life-is-complicated-imagine-having-7-se-460729402
Writes Naro :
The protozoan in today ’s comedian are Tetrahymenathermophila , a single - celled germ with a unique feature : They have seven genders . As report byNatureyesterday , Tetrahymena can belong to seven different “ mating types”—each able-bodied reproduce with any of the other six , but not with its own character . To take it further , the mating case of the materialization has nothing to do with the type of its parent . It ’s completely random .
Nature , you ’re funny .
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