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exactly to what would have developed out of them had their sister 

 blastomeres remained alive. 



Conklin, therefore, may fairly claim to have proved that these 

 coloured cytoplasms are definite organ-forming substances. He has 

 proved that similar substances exist in the eggs of dona, Molgula, 

 and Phallusia (1911), only that these substances are not distinguish- 

 able from one another in the living egg, but require staining to 

 differentiate them from one another. 



But now the question arises: if the organs of the larva are 

 determined by substances situated in definite regions of the unseg- 

 niented egg, whence do those substances come ? The answer to this 



ph 



p.mch 



FIG. 458. Illustrating the result of the development of single blastomeres of the 2-cell 

 stage of the egg of Cynthia partita. (After Conklin. ) 



A, frontal longitudinal section of young tadpole of Cynthia partita developed from normal egg. 15, 

 frontal longitudinal section of young tadpole of Cynthia partita developed from 2-cell stage in which 

 the left blastomere was killed, a.mch, anterior mesenchyme (corresponding to the superior mesenchyme 

 of Fig. 446) ; ch, notochord ; ect, ectoderm ; ms, mesodermal band ; ph, pharynx ; p.mch, posterior 

 mt'srnchyme (corresponding to the inferior mesenchyme of Fig. 446). 



is, that one of them, the clear ectoderm-forming substance, is 

 actually contained in the nucleus. Further, Schaxel (1910) has shown 

 that, in the developing oocyte, cbromatin is emitted from the nucleus, 

 and that the slaty-blue yolk spherules grow at the expense of these 

 chromatiu particles. Hence we may boldly assert that the cytoplasm 

 of the ripe egg is differentiated by the egg-nucleus. 



But although the substances are formed under the influence of the 

 egg-nucleus, they are arranged under the influence of the sper- 

 matozoon. As we have seen, the entering spermatozoon drags the 

 yellow substance after it, and thence determines the position of the 

 muscle-forming material. If two spermatozoa enter the egg, then the 

 yellow substance forms two aggregations instead of one. In the egg 



