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"Alga" Quotes from Famous Books
... none have interested me more than Carter's on lower vegetables, infusoria, and protozoa. Is he as good a workman as he appears? for if so he would deserve a Royal medal. I know it is not new; but how wonderful his account of the spermatozoa of some dioecious alga or conferva, swimming and finding the minute micropyle in a distinct plant, and forcing its way in! Why, these zoospores must possess some sort of organ of sense to guide their locomotive powers to the small micropyle; and does not this necessarily imply something ... — More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin |
Words linked to "Alga" : green algae, euglenid, euglenoid, diatom, seaweed, cryptophyte, chlorella, chlorophyte, euglenophyte, protoctist, cryptomonad |
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