Talk:Praya dubia
Add topicLatest comment: 1 year ago by LilithJRose in topic Siphonophorae straddle the designation of colony vs singular organism, the article should reflect that.
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Siphonophorae straddle the designation of colony vs singular organism, the article should reflect that.
[edit]The article reductively refers to the siphonophore as a colony.
The siphonophore sits on a grey space between colony and a single organism, and the article should reflect that instead of portraying it as simply a colony. The Siphonophore needs and array of different zooids to survive, and a zooid cannot survive long after breaking off from the siphonophore, and all share the same DNA parts specialize. The zooid's designation between 'member of a colony' vs 'organ' is fuzzy at best, so the article presenting it definitively one way is misleading of one of the more teachable moments in biology. LilithJRose (talk) 22:26, 25 March 2025 (UTC)