Crossword-Solution: VOLVOX
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| Volvox | n. | A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule. |
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| minute flagella rotate the colony about an axis | 1 answer |
| type genus of the Volvocaceae | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with VOLVOX (5)
Dangerous? Of course she's dangerous--as dangerous as Nature! Just as dangerous, just as self-centred, as in its small way is that vegetative organism the volvox, which, when food is scarce and the race is threatened, against possible need of insemination, creates separate husband cells to starve in clusters, while 'she' hogs all the food-supply for the production of eggs.
The writer has shown that the experiments on the effect of acids on the heliotropism of copepods can be repeated with the same result in Volvox.
The white corpuscles of the blood of a frog, and the cilia on two infusorial animals, a Paramaecium and Volvox, were similarly affected by the poison.
Man is the most composite of all creatures: the wheel-insect, volvox globator, is at the other extreme.
There are still to-day some organisms that remain throughout life at the structural stage of the blastula--hollow vesicles that swim about by a ciliary movement in the water, the wall of which is composed of a single layer of cells, such as the volvox, the magosphaera, synura, etc.