ACTIVITIES OF COLONIAL ANIMALS Pyles 
tractions are called forth by impulses, often wave-like in charac- 
ter and probably neurogenic in origin (nerve-net). 
19. The activities of Renilla are colonial in scope rather than 
zooidal; the zodid as a unit is dominated by the colony. 
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