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The identify of the photo that stumped readers
November 14th, 2009, 12:43 pm · 121 Comments · posted by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor
I vowed that this week’s contest would be harder than last week’s. And it was. After scores of entries, we finally got the right answer from Kyle Martin of Yorba Linda, who goes by the screen name of Aceofspades. He knew that the photo shows human mitochondria, the so-called “power plants” of cells. The photo was supplied by UCI geneticist Doug Wallace, one of the world’s foremost experts on mitochondria.
Martin wins a free copy of “Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King,” a new biography by Brad Matsen.
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a flea
Chlorella algae under a microscope?
Aequorea victoria
Is it a jellyfish (box)?
Tonia
Jellyfish?
baby jellyfish?
Bed bugs under ultraviolet light
A collection of various elements, each in turn composed of various atoms.
Is it a shrimp hatching out of it’s egg?
Electric Green Jellyfish?
All the crap on our cell phones
Fluorescent Jellyfish
Editor’s Note: I chose the photo because it looks like a jellyfish. But it is not a jellyfish. If no one gets it by 1 p.m., I’ll add a hint.
Its a Booger!!!
seahorse egg
It’s obviously a metroid.
Samus Aran killed all the metroids.
Plankton?
Some kind of algae moss fungus or bacteria under a microscope? or simply closer look of swine flu looks like?
Plankton
Editor’s Hint: I told some emailers that they weren’t looking at something in the ocean. And while it is true that they’re not looking at plankton or jellyfish, what you’re looking at can be found in the ocean. But you’re not looking at a marine organism. And the image shows something you can find virtually anywhere in the world.
H1N1 Virus
Editor’s Note: I also meant to mention that this isn’t the H1N1 virus.
Is it a magnification of red tide?
Stem Cells
bacteria
Bacterial replication in a growing colony?
Some form of Algae?
sea salt
Dust
A Virus
single celled amoebas
On a side note Gary,
It would be a good idea to have OCR adjust the time on their server to PST. Currently, it is ahead by one hour.
shrimp
glow worms
Ankistrodesmus falcatus epifluoresence. I just happened to have some right in front of me.
bacteria…
crab larvae ?
sand crabs
green fluorescent protein (GFP) used to mark biological processes such as how proteins move throughout the body, or how cancer cells metastasize in the body.
Red tide cyst.
Mites
Red tide algae.
Some kind of bacteria…
green glass
Here are my guess(es)! haha.
Water flea
cephalopod (young) like a nautilus
some type of krill
I think is cell under the microscope
another guess - amphipod or isopod.
chlorophyll
Kudoa thyrsites or myxozoan parasite.
plankton
some type of neuron.
Shrimp Sperm.
Editor’s note: New clue … you’re looking at something found inside the human body, at least in this particular image.
Hi Gary.
Chloroplast
bioluminescent worms that produce a green glow.
Protozoa
exploded glow stick spatter up close
sand
GLUT4
phagocytes
saliva
salt
sperm
copepod
fat cell
DNA?
antibodies.
white blood cells.
I think that it is a photo of Fireworks.
Lou: Your answer needs to be more precise.
Hi Gary.
ribosomes
Or the virus that causes the swineflu.
Viruses and bacteria from a sea water sample.
Chromosomes
cell undergoing mitosis
human dna
Deoxyribonucleic acid
chromosomes
dna replication
Viruses and bacteria in the human body.
Throat cancer or mucus
human cells
White blood cells stained with a dye.
blood cells
splitting dna chromosome
siliva/dna
mitochondrial DNA
RNA
Bacterial DNA
alright already!!! What is it??
microbes
Bacteria DNA
Pateamine A
mitochondrial DNA
microbial dna
DNA of a human skin cell
X chromosome
autosomal
mitochondrial
amoeba
nuclear
protein
gene
Cells splitting, mitosis
Yeast cells
amino acids
it could also be meiosis
bone dna
z
meiosis
hepatic cells?
Clearly, it is (multiples of) the Space Amoeba we encountered in “The Immunity Syndrome”:
http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads/200306/tos-048-the-enterprise-flies/320×240.jpg
slug
kelp
BACTERIOPHAGE
AND THE WINNER IS aceofspades, who was the first to say that the image shows human mitochondrial dna. The image was provided by UC Irvine geneticist Doug Wallace, one of the world’s forecast experts on mitochondria, the “power plant” of cells.
poop
Yes, I think Ben Young Landis is correct…it’s definitely the
(multiples of) the Space Amoeba we encountered in “The Immunity Syndrome”:
http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads/200306/tos-048-the-enterprise-flies/320×240.jpg
:):)
cytosine-5
ice-9
CONGRATS to the winner!
Congrats!
Kyle Martin, huh.. Thanks for the info, have always wondered the deal with “aceofspades’…always thought he was a she.
Nice!
Thans Gary. I have to admit, there was some pretty funny answers:
Like Ben Landis:
“…it’s definitely the
(multiples of) the Space Amoeba we encountered in “The Immunity Syndrome”:”
Thanks again, looking forward to getting it.