Animal Life: A First Book of ZoölogyD. Appleton, 1900 - 329 páginas |
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... Protozoa , 1. - The animal cell , 2.- What the primitive cell can do , 5. - Amœba , 5. - Paramecium , 9 . -Vorticella , 12. - Marine Protozoa , 15. - Globigerinæ and Radio- laria , 16. - Antiquity of the Protozoa , 20. - The primitive ...
... Protozoa , 1. - The animal cell , 2.- What the primitive cell can do , 5. - Amœba , 5. - Paramecium , 9 . -Vorticella , 12. - Marine Protozoa , 15. - Globigerinæ and Radio- laria , 16. - Antiquity of the Protozoa , 20. - The primitive ...
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... Protozoa . The simplest ani- mals are those whose bodies are simplest in structure and which do the things done by all living animals , such as eating , breathing , moving , feeling , and reproducing in the most primitive way . The body ...
... Protozoa . The simplest ani- mals are those whose bodies are simplest in structure and which do the things done by all living animals , such as eating , breathing , moving , feeling , and reproducing in the most primitive way . The body ...
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... Protozoa is composed for the animal's whole lifetime of but a single cell . The bodies of all other animals are composed of many cells . The cell may be called the unit of animal ( or plant ) structure . The body of a horse is complexly ...
... Protozoa is composed for the animal's whole lifetime of but a single cell . The bodies of all other animals are composed of many cells . The cell may be called the unit of animal ( or plant ) structure . The body of a horse is complexly ...
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... Protozoa can be best understood by the observation of living individuals . In the slime and sediment at the bottom of stagnant pools lives a certain specially interest- ing kind of protozoan , the Amaba ( Fig . 2 ) . Of all the simplest ...
... Protozoa can be best understood by the observation of living individuals . In the slime and sediment at the bottom of stagnant pools lives a certain specially interest- ing kind of protozoan , the Amaba ( Fig . 2 ) . Of all the simplest ...
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... Protozoa . If called upon to name the char- acteristic animals of the ocean , we answer readily with the names of the better - known ocean fishes , like the herring and cod , which we know to live there in enormous numbers ; the seals ...
... Protozoa . If called upon to name the char- acteristic animals of the ocean , we answer readily with the names of the better - known ocean fishes , like the herring and cod , which we know to live there in enormous numbers ; the seals ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
adaptation adult alimentary canal Amaba ants become bees beetles birds butterfly called cavity chitin CLASS colony color complex animals composed conjugation crab crustaceans degeneration differentiation digestive divide division ectoderm egg cells embryo existence eyes fauna feed female fish flagella free-swimming function gastrula habits hatched higher animals host Hydra inclosed increase individuals insects instinct intestine jelly-fishes kinds of animals larva larvæ layer live male mals mammals many-celled animals mass medusæ metamorphosis mouth naturalists nerve nest nucleus ocean one-celled opening organs outer oxygen Pandorina papillæ Paramecium parasites parent plants polyp prey primitive processes produced protective resemblance protoplasm Protozoa pseudopods pupa Radiolaria reflex action reproductive cells Sacculina sea-anemone shell simple simplest animals single cell special sense species sperm cells spherical spiders sponge stage structure substance surface swimming tentacles tion tissues vertebrates Volvox Vorticella wings workers worms young
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Página 115 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate, that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair. Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in less than a thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny.
Página 88 - Fig. 145 are indistinguishably alike, but one embryo is sure to develop into a fish and the other into a salamander. This certainty of an embryo to become an individual of a certain kind is called the law of heredity.
Página 215 - He cannot be mistaken for any other, and his flaming vest and blue stockings show that he does not court concealment. He is very abundant in the damp woods, and I was convinced he was uneatable so soon as I made his acquaintance and saw the happy sense of security with which he hopped about. I took a few specimens home with me, and tried my fowls and ducks with them ; but none would touch them. At last, by throwing down pieces of meat, for which there was a great competition amongst them, I managed...
Página 164 - Russian naturalist, of the hunting habits of the great white-tailed eagle (Haliattos albicilla) on the Russian steppes shows that this kind of eagle at least has adopted a gregarious habit, in which mutual help is plainly obvious. This naturalist once saw an eagle high in the air, circling slowly and widely in perfect silence. Suddenly the eagle screamed loudly. " Its cry was soon answered by another eagle, which approached it, and was followed by a third, a fourth, and so on, till nine or ten eagles...