zoospores

Such a behaviour is very similar to the production of zoospores which is so common in many filamentous algae.

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The zoospores or mobile spores of many algæ and fungi.

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There were also spores and mycelial filaments of fungi, dirt, and zoospores.

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Reproduction: by cell division, by the conversion of the cell contents into zoospores, and by resting spores, formed sometimes after conjugation; in other cases, probably, by fecundation by spermatozoids.

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The families are formed either of assemblages of coated zoospores united in a definite form by the cohesion of their membranes, or assemblages of naked zoospores inclosed in a common investing membrane.

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Their contents (zoospores) are liberated, and quickly grow in the leaf, and soon permeate every tissue of the plant.

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The spores are large, and produce zoospores, or spores with hair-like tails

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It is true one may argue that the zoospores of certain cryptogamia exhibit similar movements; but do not these zoospores possess as much of an animal nature as do the spermatozoa?

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By these methods the cilia are seen to be fine protoplasmic outgrowths of the cell (fig. 1) of the same nature as those of the zoospores and antherozoids of algae, mosses,

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-- Microscopic cellular fresh water plants, composed of groups of bodies resembling zoospores connected into a definite form by their enveloping membranes.

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