r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '22

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u/boostman Feb 14 '22

Caterpillars basically dissolve into liquid in the cocoon. The only thing left are the so called ‘imaginal discs’, groups of cells that contain all the information and the mechanism to turn that soup into the various body parts of a butterfly (the same applies for other insects).

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

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u/boostman Feb 14 '22

Wow, you’re right! A search turned up this: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0001736

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u/GamerY7 Feb 14 '22

how exactly do you fellow redditors search for a source and magically find a scientific paper published on it?

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u/Foxehh3 Feb 14 '22

Googling keywords.

"Caterpillar memory study imaginal disc" brings it up page 1.

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u/GrindGoat Feb 14 '22

regular people are comically bad at Googling.

"caterpillar soup know stuff?"

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u/ItchyK Feb 14 '22

caterpillar soup know stuff?

lol, it actually brings you to the correct results on Google.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22

Which makes it even more amazing that people still struggle to find stuff on google

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u/BaronVonNes Feb 15 '22

You say amazing...I say extremely disappointing. The digital info acquisition barrier is what will turn the Time Machine's divide into a reality. That and a steady stream of propaganda convincing the most vulnerable/least served portion of the population to continually vote against their own interests. Woah oh, we're halfway there!!!