Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Turritopsis nutricula


Immortal jelly fish cells will undergo a process called “transdifferentiation” wherein cells will turn into different kinds of cells i.e. the muscle cells of the immortal jellyfish can turn into egg cells or even sperm cells thus they have transformation power.




They have come up with different physical adaptations depending on their environments. For instance, specimens that live in tropical waters have 8 tentacles while ones from more temperate regions have 24 tentacles.



These jellyfish are quite small and while they do sting, they are not poisonous like the box jellyfish which is also tiny at just 2.5cm long.


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