Editing Cell Quest

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You are a single celled carbon based organism.

You are not a prion, a viroid, a virus, a DNA strand in the primordial
soup or a multicellular organism.

You start with one organism.

Your starting organism can use as many DNA points as you want and
starts with one phase of life.

Your starting phase of life has 240 food points.  Calculate your total
food points after you have calculated all your DNA points.

You do not need to use too many DNA points or all your food points.
The more DNA you have the easier it is to build up deleterious
mutations over time.  The bigger you are the more food you require and
the more resources it takes to reproduce.

== Add a new phase of life ==
* 3 DNA points
Add yet another phase in your organism's life cycle.  Perhaps, this
stage of life is spore like or maybe it is a parasitical stage of life
or maybe it is something else?

== Choose at least one ==
You cannot be an endosymbiote or parasite of an organism smaller than
you.

* Freeliving
** 3 DNA points
** 3 food points
* Endosymbiote
** 3 DNA points
** 3 food points
* Intracellular parasite
** 3 DNA points
** 3 food points

== Nucleus ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points

== Choose how many copies of your DNA this phase of life contains (ploidy) ==
* 3 DNA points
* N * DNA points food points

== Backup copy of DNA ==
* 3 DNA points
* 0.25 * ploidy * DNA points food points (round up)

== Cytoskeleton ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
* Required for freeliving phases of life (endosymbiotes and intracellular parasites don't need this)

== Anerobic respiration ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
* For freeliving organisms you or an endosymbiote of you must have this

== Choose at least one ==
=== Binary fission ===
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
=== Budding ===
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
=== Sexual Reproduction ===
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
==== Meiosis ====
A phase of life with 2 N ploidy can split into another phase of life with N ploidy.

==== Binary Fusion ====
A phase of life with N ploidy can combine with another phase of life
that also has N ploidy and the Binary Fusion trait.

== Flagellum(a) ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points

== Cilia ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points

== Ameboid (Cannot have Cell wall) ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points

== Endosymbiote(s) ==
Create a new cellular organism and use that as your endosymbiote(s).
Each type of endosymbiote has their own pool of DNA points.  Multiple
copies of the same type of endosymbiote(s) multiplies the amount of
food points used but not DNA points used.  An endosymbiote in your
phase of life contributes to your total size in your phase of life.

== Thylakoids stacks ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
* Creates sugars out of sunlight, carbon and water
* Also creates oxygen (a powerful poison and fuel)

== Cell wall ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
Protect yourself against hard knocks and osmotic pressure.

Choose a type of cell wall: glycophosphate, silica, chitin or
cellulose.

== Aerobic metabolism ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
* Requires oxygen to use
* Makes you go much faster
* Requires you to use the dangerous poison oxygen

== Contractile Vacuole ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
Pump out salt water and maintain isotony

== Ion pump ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
Pumps out positively (hydrogen pump) or negatively (sodium-potassium
pump) charged ions for electrical communication purposes.

Choose a type of ion pump: hydrogen or sodium-potassium pump.

== Colony Organism ==
* 3 DNA points
* 3 food points
* Requires Ion pump