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MEGANUCLEUS (also called MACRONUCLEUS)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 75 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MEGANUCLEUS (also called MACRONUCLEUS)

MEGANUCLEUS (also called MACRONUCLEUS) , in See also:

INFUSORIA

Infusoria (q.v.)., the large See also:

NUCLEUS (Lat. for the kernal of a nut, nux, the stone of fruit)

nucleus which undergoes See also:

DIRECT

direct (amitotic) See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division in fission, and is lost during conjugation, to be replaced by a nucleus, the result of the See also:

KARYOGAMY (Gr. Kapvov, nut or kernel, thus " nucleus," and yaµos, marriage)

karyogamy of the micronuclei .

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