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Sion
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Early
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Approximately
3.4 billion years ago, in the warm oceanic waters
of the Sea of Manticore, a small unicellular organism
called Sion, broke away from the its parent cell,
the Ryon cell, and became an independent organism.
Scientists believe that the Ryon was possibly
the very first life form on planet Vesta. Interestingly
enough, the Sion cell is very similar to the pseudopodia
cells on Earth. Sion cells inhabited the salt
waters, where all life began. They had no chloroplasts
and had lost their photosynthetic capabilities.
As a consequence, the Sion cells floated around
in the oceans consuming organic matter as they
found it. Therefore, Sion cells became dedicated
consumers of organic matter.
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Early reproduction of the Sion cell
was asexual, meaning that a basic single cell split,
thus becoming two identical cells. Millions of years
later, some of the simple cells decided to divide
but to remain clumped together. Therefore, the first
clump of cells appeared. Appearing as a clump of
cells was an important evolution because, by grouping
together, the cells survived and became stronger.
This strength lead to the next important evolution.
That is to say, a clump of cells became organized
within, and became a primitive early plant. Once
organized, this new primitive plant organized itself
and began to photosynthesize to produce nourishment.
Photosynthesis became possible because the newly
organized cells contained DNA information to make
chloroplasts. In physical appearance, Sion cells
were usually red, orange or yellow. Soon, descendants
of the Sion cell would seek adaptations in coral
reef-like biomes, rocky shores biomes, and deep
kelp-like forests.
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Botanical Name:
Sioniplasti
1st Environment:
Ocean Shallow Rocks
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The rocky shore
habitat, known also as the tide pool biome, is
home to a vast array of marine life. Daily the
shore is pounded by the ocean waves. Sometimes
it is low tide and this "drying out"
period allows all creatures to be exposed to dry
heat and air. This can be very harsh for animals
and plants that need to remain moist all the time.
However, some creatures and plants like the dryer
periods, but always welcome the returning high
tide later in the day. Life forms that live in
the tide pools have adapted to harsh changes,
excessive pounding and motion caused by the water,
and the drying out factor. It took two billion
years of successive evolutions to permit the deep
water Sion cell to adapt to the tide pool region.
Once established in this biome, Sion cells flourished
and became a multicellular organism. The Sion
cell that adapted to the tide pool regions became
known as Sioniplasti. During low tide, Sioniplasti
would photosynthesize its nutrients from the sun.
Photosynthesis created sugars from the waters
and exchanged gases with the environment, such
as giving off oxygen; in its search for the sunlight,
Sioniplasti began to grow upward, reaching a height
of two feet in favorable conditions. As a survival
mechanism, the plant changed in its physical appearance
from being dominantly yellow, to becoming more
green in appearance as an attempt to become camouflaged
among other plants.
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Botanical Name: Sionkelp
2nd Environment: Kelp Forest
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The new Sionkelp
species evolved in a kelp-like biome. The kelp-like
forest biomes were some of the most beautiful
oceanic environments on planet Vesta. This environment
is home to a vast collection of water species.
In this more spacious environment, the original
species, Sioniplasti began to grow into a larger
plant form, and hence, Sionkelp evolved. Sionkelp
developed large green leaves which floated closer
to the top of the waters, seeking sunlight.
The big leaves facing the sunlight all day behaved
like little food factories, photosynthesizing
sunlight into sugars and carbon dioxide gases.
Sionkelp grew an amazing 30 cm per day. Growth
at this speed quickly resulted in the formation
of kelp-like forests in warm Vestian waters.
The Sionkelp groves became home and hiding places
for a host of other life forms.
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Botanical
Name: Siongrass
3rd Environment: Coral Reef
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The
Siongrass species, another evolved cell that had
broken away from the Sion parent cell, found a home
in the warm shallow tropical waters of Manticore
Ocean. This habitat was a coral reef-like biome.
Corals were a type of species that were half animal
and half plant. They were cone shaped polyps with
a large opening at one end, which was the mouth.
At the mouth were many thin tentacles that waved
around grasping for food that floated by. The coral
reef-like biome was home to some coral species,
small kelp-like plants, algaes, and the Siongrass.
Siongrasses were actually an algae type of plant.
They created their own food through photosynthesis
and remained anchored by growing holdfasts . The
holdfasts were pseudo roots. They looked like roots
but did not have root-like functions. In the future,
the Siongrass habitat would prove to be a perfect
home for a variety of life-forms and food for many
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Diagram
of Plant Relationship
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Sion
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Group
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Sioniplasti
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This
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