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What is this?
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40X DIC
Of course the small rods everywhere are bacteria
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a fiber? Spider silk that got caught under the glass?

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Well lets take a really wild poke at it . . . DNA! :o

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houstontx wrote:a fiber? Spider silk that got caught under the glass?
Well, it's fibrous, but not what we call a fiber, spider silk is smooth...so no
Ken Ramos wrote:Well lets take a really wild poke at it . . . DNA! :o
DNA is 2nm wide while this is about more than 20 micron...although all in Biology is DNA related :D

A clue: it has something that makes it difficult to forget :-k
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Pau wrote:...
A clue: it has something that makes it difficult to forget :-k
Spirochete :shock:
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No, it isn't prokaryotic
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Second clue: Marine Biology
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Sensoric tentacle of a jellyfisch?

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CEN, your scale is not correct but you're very close...although excessive proximity is not recommended in this case :D
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Thanks for a very interesting riddle.

A trichocyst?

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Everted thread of a nematocyst?

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JH wrote:A trichocyst?
Now the scale is not correct by the other side, although it can be thought as analogous of ciliate trichocysts.
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CEN wrote:Everted thread of a nematocyst?
YES!, it's a jellyfish nematocyst threaded long filament. =D>

Thanks all for your participation. I think it's fun, isn't it?

I've posted the info and more pictures at http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... p?p=224529
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