Crossword-Solution: VORTICELLA
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| Vorticella | n. | Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched. |
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| INFUSORIA | 3 answers |
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Some species of the bell-animalcule, _Vorticella_, provide characteristic examples of these primitive compound protozoa.
These elements are not all alike, as in the case of colonial protozoa like _Vorticella_, for they fall into two classes which are distinguished by certain structural and functional characteristics.
Some of the transitional forms have been specified to show how the second kind originates from the first, and how in its turn this grows in time into the third and most complex association; thus _Vorticella_ and _Volvox_ connect _Amoeba_ with the cell-community individual like _Hydra_ and a solitary wasp, while the annually established colonies of social wasps and of bumblebees lead to the permanent colony-individual.
The primal duties of each family are unchanged, and their biological activities are identical, as in the protozoön colony of _Vorticella_ or in a pack of wolves; but certain new relations are established.
Certainly in this case the organism can not be regarded as a Vorticella broken off its stalk, as Kent '81 suspected.