Gloop is a single-celled organism found approximately 3.5 billion years ago in the Manticore Ocean of Planet Vesta. Gloop is made up much like the animal cells found on Earth. It is made up of eight organelles or parts. The eight organelles are: nucleus, ribosomes, mitochondria, lysosomes, vacuole, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi complex, and the membrane. These eight organelles help maintain the cell’s life.

The brain of the gloop cell is called the nucleus. The nucleus contains the cell’s DNA and is the control center of the cell. Gloop is also made up of ribosomes. Ribosomes make proteins by hooking up amino acids together. All animal cells have ribosomes because all cells need protein to live. All cells also need energy for its activities. The mitochondria helps break down food molecules to make ATP and ATP is a molecule that provides energy for the cell’s activities. Lysosomes are special vesicles in the cell that contains enzymes. These enzymes help digest food particles, wastes, cell parts, and foreign invaders. Vacuole help stores water and other materials and the endoplasmic reticulum makes lipids, breaks down drugs and other substances, and packages up proteins for release from the cell. The Golgi complex is very much like the endoplasmic reticulum. It helps the cell modify, package, and transport materials out. The cell, gloop and its organelles are covered by a layer of “skin” that acts as a barrier between the inside and the outside environment of the cell. This cover is the membrane.

The eight organelles work together to help Gloop cells survive in the unpredictable conditions of the oceanic waters. Gloop cells reproduced and divided through the process of mitosis. The duplicated cells clumped together to form primitive animal forms. These clumps traveled with the currents of Manticore Ocean and diversified in many different biomes.

Tloop is a multicellular animal found in the oceanic shallow rocks communities, particularly the tide pools. Tide pools are often the living environment found along the oceanic shallow rocks. Tide pools are holes in rocks that stay filled with water once the tide goes out. Some tide pools are below low-tide line and are covered in ocean water most of the time. Some tide pools are above low-tide line. These rocks are normally dry and exposed to air for about 10 hours a day. They are wetted only be sea spray and occasional waves.

Tloop slowly emerged approximately 3.3 billions years ago and is a relative of the Gloop cell. Tloops lived among and fed on the many plants and animals of the tide pools. Plants and animals that lived in the tide pools must be able to withstand and adapt to extreme fluctuations in conditions from the forceful waves that roll in to high temperatures beating on the rocks. In order to adapt and survive in the tide pools, Tloops learned to live closely to barnacles. Barnacles belong in the crustacean family and “glue” themselves to the underside of rocks. Barnacles secrete a calcium hard shell and encrust themselves inside after they have securely “glued” themselves to the rocks. This tactic of survival has helped barnacles overcome the fierce tides that come through the tide pools. In order to continue their survival in the tide pools, Tloops learned to utilize some of the barnacles’ “glue” and attached themselves very closely to the barnacles during high tides. This method of survival allowed Tloops to continue to survive in the shallow rocks communities. Tloops fed on the planktons that barnacles collected with their feather like legs.