The Biology of Seedrians

[galaxina]

I actually thought that the not all males could use that dinosaur form and the ones that did must've mutated themselves with injected geneitic plasmids or something.

But I still don't agree with your symbiotic plant idea for this reason.
I remeber that when Dark Oak would activate the forestization, it would eradicate all non-plant life. But if your theory is true, then that would mean he would obliterate his (and all other Seedrians he had with him's) animal parts and leave behind the symbiote plant, and the plant would then die off because it had nothing to live on. So basically, it would kill himself if my theory of them being like pikmin wasn't true.

Also Seedrians must have a way of breathing both oxygen and CO2, for if Dark Oak completed the Forstization, he and all other seedrians and plants could not get CO2 and would all die. Maybe they can breathe other gases too. I also read that Seedrians can absorb water and breathe through thier skin, which does make sense.

[Twilitbeing]

Certain plants (mature trees that have stopped growing, for example) produce more CO₂ than O₂. The reason for this is that, while plants can use photosynthesis to create sugar, they have metabolize it afterward the same way we do to get the energy from it. they also use the sugars to build their cell walls and make their fruits more enticing to animals. When they stop growing, they generate less sugar but metabolize just as much to maintain things like water uptake and internal temperature. Thus, an ecosystem made entirely or mostly of plants would work just fine, though many flowering plants would have a hard time spreading their pollen.

Breathing through the skin works well in some animals, but since it relies either on air currents or a high level of moisture, it is impractical in large organisms. Something Cosmo's size would need hurricane-force winds to breath like an insect and would need to be aquatic, underground, or basically unmoving to breath like the way animals like earthworms do.

The Forestation thing is tricky, but I believe I have an answer for that. "Plant" and "animal" are human-made distinctions; their isn't such a hard dividing line as many people imagine. Mosses (a plant) are nearly identical to seaweed (a protist), which is in turn much like single-cell algae, which often have distinct animal-like characteristics. Dark Oak would have control over what the Forestation killed, and he could leave his own kind untouched if he so chose.

[Twilitbeing]

Sorry for the double post; I just wanted to bump the thread. I've been thinking over their life cycle a bit more and revised the first post as a result.