Why do bacteria sacrifice themselves? | Nick Lane

#biology #cellbiology #bacteria

[cliptomaniac]

Pour some out for my bacterial brothers and sisters

[catalindeluxus]

Seems like natural selection principle applied at smallest life scales

[thetruthexperiment]

You hear that folks? Cue for free cure all! Save the rest of us! What a wonderful message…

[margueriteoreilly]

Apoptotis is Life Death and Rebirth of the Cell the Micro and Macro Universe as above so Below....Belfast Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤

[lancethrustworthy]

I would have liked this, if our host hadn't lost his mind, telling the audience that bacteria are thinking complex thoughts involving self sacrifice.
I would have stopped recording and turned the cameras off if I knew he was going to go over the top like that. Oh well. Such is video production.

[Phillold]

No. They didn't think that because they don't think. Those that died slowly simply ceased to exist. That's evolution. Those that died quickly benefited others that were the same as they continue to exist.

[lorriheffner]

so you are saying that if someone dies, quickly, these bacteria then off themselves? so that all the other bacteria in the body can survive? and for the purpose of something? like as, they know? They know that they are now the uninvited guest?

[unbearifiedbear]

Forced redundancy

How anybody can look at one of those things and NOT see a machine is beyond me

[RyanAuty]

So how do the phage reproduce if the bacteria can do this?

[ReeBore]

They made a startrek episode about this but people 😮

[lucasgroves]

I'd be interested to know Richard Dawkins's view on this interpretation.

[MikSrf]

I think of bacterial phages as like a virus, but for bacteria.

[bondjames]

Smashing basil... but what dies it all mean?

[higherresolution]

He's talking about apoptosis. Don't pronounce the second p. This is the Greek word.

[DamionRice-hv]

Only way this can work is if none of the entities in the system have free will. Nobody is going to willingly sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Not enough to keep the system working at least.

[JohnDelong-qmiv]

I don’t think a cell has an imagination

[jagannathdas]

Listen carefully you may hear Allahuakber when that bacteria blows up.

[yoga_danni]

What you're doing right here hassan is the problem with the democratic party and why we don't always win we nitpick and segregate ourselves into different groups rather than for now, stick together, we can fight about the specifics after she is elected

[mrwojna]

They don’t die for their individual genes, they die for their species’ genes. Humans do the same thing. Sure there are hierarchies, but ultimately it’s about humanity, not cousin Becky Sue or Aunt Vera.

[helicalactual]

thats nice but i disagree with the cousin thing.