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... minute masses , is found undifferentiated and perfectly homogeneous , and constitutes the lowest types both of animal and vegetable life that can be observed under the microscope . It is this substance , too , which forms the cells , of ...
... minute masses , is found undifferentiated and perfectly homogeneous , and constitutes the lowest types both of animal and vegetable life that can be observed under the microscope . It is this substance , too , which forms the cells , of ...
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... minute or two an irregular projection or pseudo- podium is seen to be gradually thrust out from the main body and retracted a second mass is then protruded in another direction , and gradually the whole protoplasmic substance is , as it ...
... minute or two an irregular projection or pseudo- podium is seen to be gradually thrust out from the main body and retracted a second mass is then protruded in another direction , and gradually the whole protoplasmic substance is , as it ...
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... minutes when kept moist on a warm stage . ( Schofield . ) Other illustrations of amaboid movement . - The remarkable motions of pigment - granules observed in the branched pigment - cells of the frog's skin by Lister are probably due to ...
... minutes when kept moist on a warm stage . ( Schofield . ) Other illustrations of amaboid movement . - The remarkable motions of pigment - granules observed in the branched pigment - cells of the frog's skin by Lister are probably due to ...
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... minute organisms such as diatoms and the like , from which it extracts what it requires , and then rejects or excretes the re- mainder , which has never formed part of the body , by with- drawing itself from it . The assimilation which ...
... minute organisms such as diatoms and the like , from which it extracts what it requires , and then rejects or excretes the re- mainder , which has never formed part of the body , by with- drawing itself from it . The assimilation which ...
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... minute structure , or the histology ( ioròs , a tissue or web ) of epithelium and the connective tissues . CHAPTER II . THE STRUCTURE OF THE ELEMENTARY TISSUES . THE cells of the body are described in various ways ; for example ...
... minute structure , or the histology ( ioròs , a tissue or web ) of epithelium and the connective tissues . CHAPTER II . THE STRUCTURE OF THE ELEMENTARY TISSUES . THE cells of the body are described in various ways ; for example ...
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