Chapter VII — 69 — The Chondriome 



that these chondriosomes do not give the nuclear reaction of 

 Feulgen and furthermore, that their protein substance has nothing 

 in common with chromatin, contrary to the opinion expressed by 

 P. A. Dangeard who has called them chromatinosomes. 



It is seen, therefore, that the study of the histochemical and 

 histophysical characteristics of chondriosomes in the fungi have 

 completed and made more accurate those carried out on animal 

 cells and have shown that, in both cases, the chondriosomes behave 

 in identical fashion. 



