Leuwenhoek first observed this Volvox in marshy waters.
Volvox sphere, for example, there is a marked protoplasmic continuity between all the cells of the colony.
It is only in such cases as Volvox and Ulvaceae that there is any pretension to the formation of a true parenchyma within the limits of the Chlorophyceae.
It is Volvoxwho writes in the 'Monitor,' I hope you noticed how he contradicts himself?
Little Vibrio, who writes the playful notice in the 'Medley Pie,' has a clever hit at Volvox in that passage about the steeplechase of imagination, where the loser wants to make it appear that the winner was only run away with.
There is a class of wheel-animalcules termed rotifera, of which the revolving volvox is one example.
The revolving volvox likewise increases by growth until it becomes a society of animals, a multiple system of individuals.
This monad was once supposed to be a single animal, but the microscope shows it to be a group of animals connected by means of six processes, and each little growing volvox exhibits his red-eye speck and two long spines, or horns.
The volvox globator dwells in the lakes of Europe, is transparent, and bears within it children and grandchildren to the fifth generation; Syst.
In volvox they are entirely subservient to, and exist for, the reproductive cells, and die when they have completed their service of these.
But in volvox division of labor and differentiation of structure have taken place.
The cells of volvox do not form a solid mass, but have arranged themselves in a single layer on the outer surface of the sphere.
Furthermore, in volvox there has arisen such an interdependence of cells that we can no longer speak of it as a colony.
And plants and animals are here so near together, and travelling by roads so nearly parallel, that, even if volvox never was an animal, it might still serve very well to illustrate a stage through which animals must have passed.
Volvox is also a spheroidal organism, composed often of a very large number of flagellated cells.
And the germ-cells (eggs and spermatozoa) of volvox are immortal like the protozoa.
Volvox is an organism of unusual interest because in it we see a prophecy of what is to come.
One of the largest species is Volvox globator, one edge of which is represented in Fig.
In some species of Volvox a still further advance is seen, in that instead of both kinds of gametes being produced in the same colony, the ova may be produced by one colony and the spermatozoa by another.
Part of the surface of a colony of Volvox globator, L.
Ripe asexually produced daughter-individual of Volvox minor, Stein, still enclosed in the cyst of the partheno-gonidium.
One of the most remarkable of these vegetables is that which is called "volvox globator," a figure of which is here given.
If a half-inch lens be now used, the structure of the volvox begins to be exhibited.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "volvox" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
