The cytology of these forms is very little known; Dangeard states that there is a fusion of two nuclei in the chlamydospore, but this requires confirmation.
Most of the recent work of importance in this group deals with the cytology of sexual reproduction and of spore-formation, and the effect of external conditions on the production of reproductive organs.
The cytology of zygospore-formation is not known in detail; the so-called gametes which fuse are multinucleate and are no doubt of the nature of gametangia.
We may indeed date the birth of animal cytology from Schleiden's short but epoch-making paper.
The special literature of cytology has grown to large dimensions.
It is to the wealth of correlated observations and to the philosophic breadth of the conclusions in this paper that the subsequent rapid progress in cytology is undoubtedly to be attributed.
Those who are familiar with the results of investigations in this branch of Science are convinced that any modern theory of heredity must rest on a basis of cytology and cannot be at variance with cytological facts.
Cytology is in fact a branch of anatomy, and in the anatomy of the cell we have made some progress, but our knowledge of the physiology of the cell is still infinitesimal.
Indications of maternal characters are nevertheless mentioned by de Vries, and if Goldschmidt's account of the cytology is confirmed, these must presumably be referred to the influence of the maternal cytoplasm.
The results of future research on the cytology of the group will be awaited with interest.
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