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Coenocyte of Sphaeroforma arctica Botrydium, showing a coenocytic body. A coenocyte (/ ˈ s iː n ə ˌ s aɪ t /) is a multinucleate cell which can result from multiple nuclear divisions without their accompanying cytokinesis, in contrast to a syncytium, which results from cellular aggregation followed by dissolution of the cell membranes inside the mass. [1]
Coenobium or coenobia may refer to : Cenobitic monasticism (Cenobium, Cenobite), a monastic community in a tradition stressing communal life, as opposite to eremitism Coenobium (morphology) , a colony of cells, notably in algae
In biology, a colony is composed ... The subunits of colonial organisms can be unicellular, as in the alga Volvox (a coenobium), or multicellular, as in the phylum ...
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 extracellular matrix [1] made of glycoproteins. [3]
Volvulina is a genus of colonial green algae in the family Volvocaceae. [1] The colony (coenobium) is broadly ellipsoidal or spherical and consists of a fixed number of cells, usually 16 in mature individuals (rarely 4, 8 or 32).
Pediastrum is a genus of green algae, in the family Hydrodictyaceae. [1] It is a photoautotrophic, nonmotile coenobial green alga that inhabits freshwater environments. The name Pediastrum comes from the Greek root words pedion, meaning "plane", and astron, meaning "star", referring to its overall shape.
The cells at either end of the coenobium are different in morphology from those in the center. [6] How the cells adhere to one another during development is still unclear, but it is known that a trilaminar sheath (TLS), composed of algaenan , is one of the first exterior structures to form, developing in patches before growing to connect into ...
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