Volvox

How To Use Volvox In A Sentence

• Another example of conjugation is that of Pandorina, an alga allied to the well-known volvox. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
• That is, a simple alga like Volvox and a complex metazoan like an octopus both occupy the same sublevel.
• The Omnipod chirped, This could be a species of chlorophyte plant known commonly as a Volvox. The Search For WondLa
• The former I suppose to be beholden to a single living filament for their seminal or amatorial procreation; and the latter to the same cause for their lateral or branching generation, which they possess in common with the polypus, tænia, and volvox, and the simplicity of which is an argument in favour of the similarity of its cause. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
• There are some organisms which consist of a single cell e.g.bacteria, single-celled algae, amobae, parameciums, volvoxes.
• This monad was once supposed to be a single animal, but the microscope shows it to be a group of animals connected by means of six processes, and each little growing volvox exhibits his red-eye speck and two long spines, or horns. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
• We used a projection microscope to watch their movements, including the bursting of ‘daughter’ volvoxes from the parent sphere.
• Volvox. Such a colony is often surrounded by mucilage.
• And again, I don't want to talk about consciousness, I want to talk about it just as if it was a little bacteria, or a volvox, which is what that organism is. Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web
• Man is the most composite of all creatures; the wheel-insect, volvox globator, is at the other extreme. Representative Men