INDEX 



129 



Flagellates, Plant : classification, 48, 49 ; 

 colony forms of green flagellates, 56* ; 

 differentiation into male and female, 

 114; sexual maturity, 114; Ceratium 

 tripos, 66* ; Chilomonas Paramecium, 

 58* ; Closterium, 59* ; Eudorina ele- 

 gans, 111; Euglena gracilis, 68*; Go- 

 nium pectorale, 51*, 57*; Gonyaulax 

 apiculata, 67* ; Haplozoon clymenellae, 

 53* ; Hyalobrygon deformans, 52 ; Hy- 

 drurus f oetidus, 50* ; Peranema tricho- 

 phora, 69* ; Scenedesmus, 58* ; Sphae- 

 rella lacustris, 54* ; Synura uvella, 

 61*; Uroglenopsis americana, 51*; 

 volvox group, 55* ; Xanthidium arma- 

 tum, 59* 



Flax : bacteria used in preparing, 22 



Flies : transmit disease, 104 



Food-getting : among the Peridiniales, 

 67; by protozoa, 92; food-traps of 

 Foraminifera, 76; harpoon method, 

 95* ; trapping, 94* 



Foot-and-mouth disease of cattle : cause 

 of, 15 _ 



Foraminifera (fo-ram"i-nTf'er-a) : feed- 

 ing habits, 94; fossil, 6; pseudopodia 

 of, 76, 94; reproduction, 78; sexual 

 maturity of, 114; yellow cells, 65; 

 Allogromia oviforme, 94*; Polysto- 

 mella crispa, 77* 



Fossils: brachiopod, 4*; fern, 6; jelly- 

 fish, 6 ; significance and age of, 4 



Fowls : cause of blood diseases in, 26, 

 30 ; cause of relapsing fever in, 

 29* 



Framboesia (fram-be'zhi-a) : cause, 27 



Frontonia leucas (fron'to-m-a lu'kas), 

 81*, 91 



Fruit fly : heredity principles applicable 

 to all forms of animal life, 3 



Fundamental organizations : defined, 34 ; 

 differences from derived organization, 

 38 ; its evolution keeps pace with that 

 of the derived organization, 41 ; male 

 and female, 115; relation to derived 

 organization, 40 ; response to environ- 

 mental stimuli, 37, 39 ; restored by cell 

 division, 111 



Fungi : lack power of creating organic 

 compounds, 50 



Gametes (gam-ets) : see Reproduction 



Gametocytes (ga-me'to-sits), 107 



Generalization par excellence, 10 



Generation, Alternation of : defined, 80 



Genes (jens) : defined, 33; in Uroleptus 

 halseyi, 41 ; seated in the nucleus, 

 41 



Genetics (je-net'iks) : fundamental prin- 

 ciples applicable to all types, 3 ; genetic 

 structure of an organism, 39; Men- 

 delian inheritance in unicellular or- 

 ganism, 55; mutations, 40; the gene, 

 41 



Geologic chronology, 4, 5 



Giant bacillus, 16* 



Giardia muris (ge-ar'di-a mu'ris), 73*, 

 75 



Gleichen (gli'shen), Wilhelm Friedrich 

 von (18th century), German physi- 

 ologist, 98 



Gonium pectorale (go'ni-um pek"to- 

 ra'le) : reproduction, 56, 57*; sixteen- 

 cell colony, 51*; vegetative colony, 57* 



Gonyaulax apiculata (go"m-6-laks' 

 a-pi"ku-la'ta), 67* 



Green coating in pitchers and glasses : 

 cause of, 58* 



Green color of plants: see Chlorophyll 



Green manuring, 21 



Gregarines (greg'a-rlns) : sexual ma- 

 turity, 114 



Gregarinida (greg"a-rm'i-da), 106 



Ground-moles : parasite of, 104, 106 



Haeckel (hek'el), Ernst Heinrich (1834- 

 1919), German biologist: creates term 

 protista, 42 



Haemogregarina stepanowi (he"mo- 

 greg"a-rin'a step-an'6-wi), 106* 



Halteria grandinella (hal-ter'T-a gran"- 

 dl-neTa) : food for Actinobolus, 95 



Haplozoon (hap"16-zo'6n), 49, 53*, 67 



Hartmann, Max (1876- ), German 

 biologist, 111 



Harvey^ William (1578-1657), English 

 physician: experiments of, 3 



Heat: effect on protoplasm, 39; reac- 

 tions of organisms to, 101 



Heliozoa (he"lT-6-zo'a), 76, 111 



Heredity : principles common to all 

 types of animal life, 3; see also 

 Genetics 



Hermaphrodite (her-maf'ro-dit) : de- 

 fined, 55 



Herpetomonas (hur-pet"6-mon'as), 103 



Heterokontae (het"er-6-kon'te), 49 



Heteromita (het"er-6m'i-ta), 101 



Histology (his-tol'6-ji) : defined, 2 



Holophytic (hol"6-fIt'ik) nutrition, 92, 

 93 



Holozoic (h61"6-zo'ik) nutrition, 92, 93 



Horse : parasite from stomach of, 10* 



Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895), 

 English biologist : quoted on "spon- 

 taneous generation," 7 



