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do not begin to develop until the microgametes have 

 matured and broken away from the colony, so that 

 little or no opportunity is afforded for zygosis to 



FIG. 59. Volvox globator, a large colonial flagellate: A, a sexually 

 ripe colony, showing microgametes (d 1 ) and macrogametes (?), in vari- 

 ous stages of development; B, a portion of the edge of the colony highly 

 magnified, showing three flagellate cells united by protoplasmic threads, 

 and a single reproductive cell, rp; st, stigma or "eye-spot" ; cv, con- 

 tractile vacuole. (From Bourne, after Kolliker.) 



occur, between members of the same colony. The 

 fusion of the passive megagamete and the active 

 microgamete occurs within the colony of which 



