microNom

microNom brings the fun of multiplayer combat into the world of microbiology. Choose your Microbe and battle for dominance in the arena of the microscope slide. Push your opponent out of the way and stick him to the edges of the microscope slide. Grab the randomly appearing food to claim the title of the fittest organism!

Meet the entire cast of characters:

• Ricky Rotifer usually hangs out in freshwater areas with all his zooplankton friends. When he's not sweeping food into his mouth using his cilia, he likes to show off his awesome bilateral symmetry and swim around filtering water.
  
• Peter Paramecium hangs out in freshwater areas and likes to stump scientists by using non-standard encodings in his genome. He moves in circular arcs by waving the cilia all over his body in unison, and he sweeps up food into his mouth while he's swimming!
  
• Victor Volvox is part of the Freshwater Algae family, and you can find him in ponds, ditches, and even puddles! He is green because he has lots of chlorophyll, which make food for him using photosynthesis when he sits out in the sun.
  
• Daphne Dunaliella loves to eat salt! She is a micro-algae that makes lots of anti-oxidants, and you can find her in cosmetics and vitamins! The antioxidant she makes is called beta-carotene, and it keeps her safe in her salty environments.
  
• Elvis "One-Eye" Euglena can live in freshwater or saltwater. He uses his Eye to find sunlight so he can sit in the sun and make food using his chloroplast. But if there's no sunlight, he can just swim around using his flagellum and eat whatever food he finds!
  
• Tom Diatom is a special part of the Algae family. Not only does he have a real nucleus, but he also has a cell wall -- and, unlike anyone else's, his is made out of silica! He doesn't move much, but he has a flagellum just in case. Tom works full time as a phytoplankton, which means he hangs out in the sun and makes food using his chloroplast.
  
• Amanda Amoeba can live in all kinds of water, as long as it's not too salty or too fresh. She moves around using her giant foot, and she can gobble up big pieces of food to work on later. Her giant nucleus contains over one hundred times more DNA than the human genome!
  

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