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Volvox is a polyphyletic genus in the volvocine green algae clade. [2] Each mature Volvox colony is composed of up to thousands of cells from two differentiated cell types: numerous flagellate somatic cells and a smaller number of germ cells lacking in soma that are embedded in the surface of a hollow sphere or coenobium containing an ...
In Volvox only very few cells are able to reproduce new individuals, and in some species of Volvox the reproductive cells are derived from cells looking and behaving like somatic cells. In V. carteri , on the other hand, the division of labor is complete with reproductive cells being set aside during cell division, and they never assume somatic ...
Volvox carteri [1] is a species of colonial green algae in the order Volvocales. [2] The V. carteri life cycle includes a sexual phase and an asexual phase.V. carteri forms small spherical colonies, or coenobia, of 2000–6000 Chlamydomonas-type somatic cells and 12–16 large, potentially immortal reproductive cells called gonidia. [3]
Volvox globator is a species of green algae of the genus Volvox. It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 work Systema Naturae . [ 1 ] In 1856 its sexuality was described by Ferdinand Cohn and is the same as Sphaeroplea annulina . [ 2 ]
A colony of Brandt's cormorants in Point Lobos, California. In biology, a colony is composed of two or more conspecific individuals living in close association with, or connected to, one another.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her ...
The head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund on Tuesday described U.S. President Donald Trump as a problem solver ahead of U.S.-Russian talks in Saudi Arabia, the first high-level, in-person ...
In the clip, a devoted cat waits patiently outside his baby sister’s nursery door throughout the night. When morning arrives, the owner opens the door, and the eager feline makes a beeline for ...