MORPHOLOGY 

 Table 2. — Golgi apparatus in Protozoa 



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flagellates, is homologous with the metazoan Golgi apparatus and 

 secretes the fluid waste material into the vacuole from which it is 

 excreted to the exterior. According to Brown, there is no blackening 

 by osmic impregnation of the contractile vacuole in Amoeba proteus, 

 (Fig. 25), but fusion of minute vacuoles associated with crescentic 

 Golgi bodies produces the vacuole and Park (1929) noted osmiophile 

 knob-like elevations on the surface of the macronucleus of Stentor 

 and Leucophrys, while the contractile vacuole system did not 

 blacken. 



Duboscq and Grasse (1933) maintain that this body is a source of 

 energy which is utilized by motor organelles. Joyet-Lavergne points 

 out that in certain Sporozoa, the Golgi body is composed of granules 

 and may be the center of enzyme production. Similar to Golgi ma- 

 terial, the so-called vacuome, which consists of neutral red-staining 

 and osmiophile globules, has been reported to occur in many Proto- 



