Virulus phageosaccus
Virulus phageosaccus is an impossibly small 2-micrometer long palean. It is round with a thick cell membrane. Its cell wall is double layered to protect it from any acids or any environmental problems it may encounter. It has all the major parts of a palaean. They do not contain a nucleus and have DNA floating throughout the cytoplasm. Their bodies are coated with pili that are “spike tipped.” These tips have small amounts of potent antibiotic in them. The pili are about 0.5 micrometers long and cover 70% of the users’ body. The pili inject by means of pressure. When they are pressed against the cell wall/cell membrane of another palaen the sac ruptures thus ejecting antibiotic into the prey's body. Once they have done that special organelles replenish the sac and antibiotic. They have 3 flagella on one end of their “body.” the flagella are relatively small being only half the size of their body length. They are small and not very fast, but are very maneuverable. This helps them get their prey.
Virulus phageosaccus lives mainly in base-consumers bodies. They feed on the palaea living in the gut of the consumer. In phagosaccus’s case, they feed mainly on saccharovorum. The palaea has a simple way of obtaining nutrients from it. It merely gets close to the prey bacterium with its small flagella, then its pili do the rest of the work. The spike tipped pili inject the bacterium with the potent antibiotic and thus killing and liquifying it fully. After it is liquified the antibiotic is inert. Phageosaccus then absorbs the nutrients through special pores in their thick cell wall. Once it finishes eating a “meal” it either 1. Starts searching for another or 2. Starts reproducing
Reproduction. The cell merely splits in half as a reproductive process. It is a mitosis process and each cell is the same as the last. The splitting process takes around 20 minutes. A cell is not an “adult” yet and cannot split again for at least 1 ½ hours. Because of the quickness of the split and the fact that phageosaccus does not have a nucleus, mutations are common. This bacterium spreads from host to host my means of dung. As an animal secretes its feces it also secretes phageosaccus. It can travel to the other host by means of inhalation or by mouth (the animal eats the dung).
Defense. Phageosaccus has 3 major defense strategies. 1. Its cell membrane. It has a thick cell membrane that can be not be pierced except by the sharpest of pili (phageosaccus cannot pierce other phageosaccus). 2. Its pili. The sharp, stabbing, antibiotic pili are phageosaccus’s main defense against “predators,” as not many organisms can actually get to the body because it is surrounded by the pili. 3. Its environment. Not many organisms can survive the harsh environment in the stomach and intestines it normally inhabits.
