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| Name        = Erdyll
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| Caption     = Two specimens of ''[[Orerdium fafia]]'' under the microscope.
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| Caption2    = Comparison between a eukaryotic animal cell and a myll erdyll.
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The '''erdyll''' ([[Phyrean]]: ''[[érddyll]]'') or '''erdid''' is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known entities. Unlike animals, plants and fungi, which are made of cells and thus termed ''cytotes'', [[myll]]s and [[luss]]es are made of erdylls, microorganisms that resemble cells in function and appearance, and are thus named ''erdotes''. They are differentiated from cytotic cells because their biochemistry differs in significant ways.

The structures of eukaryotic cells and erdylls, though superficially similar, differ in various ways. First and most noticeably, their [[polynuclei]] resemble protozoan macronuclei more closely. They are, in truth, chains of smaller nucleus-like structures, all of which contain the erdote’s genetic information. Whenever an erdyll is broken, torn or cut, as long as there’s a piece of the polynucleus inside each part, it is able to repair itself. This sometimes ends up cloning the initial individual, especially in single microorganisms. Erdote macroorganisms, for the most part, do not have this ability, as the process is very energy-consuming.

Similar to eukaryotic mitochondria, erdylls have special synthesising organelles which convert O<sub>2</sub> into ATP, the [[pneumoplast]]s. An organelle resembling the Golgi apparatus which packages and processes proteins for excretion is also present. Similarly, endoplasmic reticula analogues take care of folding proteins.

[[Category:Life]] [[Category:Living beings]] [[Category:Erdotes]] [[Category:Biology]]