11. Tiny WorldNo. 11.09
White Blood Cell
White blood cells are the body's defenders: they find and clear away germs.
Handling
Tap it to catch a bacterium and eat it up.
Its tag
- Shelf
- 11. Tiny World
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
On the wall it weighs 13.0 KB: 1,019 splats, fitted to pictures of the full Splash, which opens with 450,007.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catch a bacterium | Tap | ||
| Engulf | Button | ||
| Color | Color | #cdb4f0 |
About it
White blood cells are the body's defenders: they find and clear away germs. This one is a neutrophil, the most common kind, which eats bacteria by wrapping itself around them. This is called phagocytosis, which means "cell eating" in Greek.
Tap it and a bacterium swims in from the side. The cell reaches out a cup of its skin around it, draws it inside and closes over it; then tiny grains inside the cell gather on it and break it down until it is gone. Élie Metchnikoff first saw cells eating germs like this, and won a Nobel Prize in 1908.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,999 at Low, and up to 650,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
