Germ-free life

... cells are formed around the equator. These cells develop into special germ cells. Male and female colonies form different germ cells. Sperm cells ... have organs that in a sense have a mind of their own whose purpose in life is to produce more sex cells that when combined produce a new multicellular ...

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... to be passed to future generations, the predevelopmental primordial germ cells of the offspring may be automatically led by its own developmental ... to the traditional question: how each phenotype was selected in its life-history under different natural conditions? The Modern Synthesis encounters ...

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... there is all of art and culture where we find exaggerations of real life where the size of Betty Boops pupil alone is the size of her whole mouth ... mother or father) of the haploid (has one of two sets of chromosomes) germ cell (egg or sperm) that divides down to develop into a 47 chromosome ...

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... leaves (58). If zoospores contact injured tissue, they encyst, form germ tubes that produce hyphae, and cause invasive disease. In tissue, P. ... has been used with some success (35, 75, 85). One patient with life-threatening arteritic infection with P. insidiosum was treated successfully ...

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... to medical school, stomach ulcers were thought to be due to stress, lifestyle, or improper diet, and it was not uncommon to send ulcer patients ... that is pleomorphic. For some reason, the idea that a proposed cancer germ could have more than one form is a threat to doctors and some microbiologists. ...

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