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BATHYBIUS ((3aObc, deep, and (3ws See also: time supposed to exist in See also: great masses in the depths of the ocean and to consist of undifferentiated See also: protoplasm
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Regarding it as an organism which represented the simplest See also: form of See also: life, See also: Huxley about 1868 named it Bathybius Haeckelii
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But investigations carried out in connexion with the " Challenger " expedition indicated that it was an artificial product, composed of a flocculent precipitate of See also: gypsum thrown down from See also: sea-See also: water by See also: alcohol, and the hypothesis of its organic character was abandoned by most biologists, Huxley included
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