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| Amoeba Genus: Amoeba, polyphyletic group: Protozoa. |
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| Lego trick, that one piece that has so many uses you can't find a use for it: the lego plate circled in red has a bit of a long history. It's a piece from when my dad was a kid, and in my early lego-ing days, I kept on putting it in different builds. Recently I found it while cleaning up, and a few days or so later, I used it in my amoeba. |
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| Green Algae Clade: Viridiplantae, clade: Archaeplastida. Representative for: Green Algae |
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| Lego trick, daring diagram: because a green algae mass in lego form would just be a bunch of green pieces, I chose to do a diagram of a cell instead. This photo has arrows pointing to certain parts and specifying what they represent. Also, the mitochondrion isn't an official lego piece, but rather what keeps two lego shuriken (throwing stars) together in the packaging. |
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| Euglenid Class: Euglenida, phylum: Euglenozoa. |
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| Lego trick, flagellum flip: when I got the idea to use a studded pin to keep the two green pieces on the left connected to the holed plate on the right, the pin was flipped and poking a fair distance out. But then I noticed that if I flipped it, it didn't poke out as far and it looked a lot more flagellum-y. |
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| Dinoflagellate Superclass: Dinoflagellata. Representative for: Dinoflagellata. The photos for this LEGO® dinoflagellate are grayscale because dinoflagellates are microscopic, and all photography at that scale is in black and white. |
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| Lego trick, technic textures: while technic pieces are really good for lego mechanics, they can double as building pieces. In this case, technic axles provide optimal structure for the flagella, and a siren brick (which is not actually technic) for the cell. |
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| Golden Algae (and fish carcass) Class: Chrysophyceae (golden algae). Representative for: Chrysophyceae. |
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| Lego trick, only one side: when I was first making this dead fish, I was gonna make it symmetrical, but I didn't have the resources for that. I also noticed that if I faced one of the 1/1 side stud bricks forward, the fish'd get sturdier. Also, if I made it asymmetrical it made it look like the fish was half-sunken in the golden algae-stained water, so I did all that stuff istead. |
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(pet) Physarum polycephalum Genus and species: Physarum polycephalum, class: Myxogastria, polyphyletic assemblage: slime molds. Representative for: Slime Molds. |
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| Lego trick, a-maze-ing: after making a simple maze on a Greenbrier International inc. plate, I placed pink plates representing the slime mold on the correct path. Scientists often use slime molds to solve mazes, with light bulbs as obstacles (slime molds don't like light) and oats as food along the way. In the sketches in this photo, the light bulbs are dead ends, striped peach-colored blobs are oats, pink lines are receding slime mold matter, and the big oat is the finish line. |
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