92 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



usually called chromatin granules, group themselves into 

 crowds who have their own specific work to do in the 

 same way that in our body we have special colonies or 

 crowds of cells, who have special work to do and are 

 called organs, like the heart, liver, lungs, stomach, etc. 

 So in the cell the skilled crowds, who each have their spe- 

 cial work to do in the body of the cell, are called organs. 

 There is the centrosome, who is the directing center or 

 general manager of the whole cell body. Then there is 

 the nucleus, that contains an enormous number of crowds, 

 each skilled in his particular kind of work, as we shall see 

 later. Then there is the group that has nothing to do but 

 make starch for food. This crowd of special workers are 

 found only in the plant building cells and those plants 

 who are able and understand how to make their own food 

 out of the raw material of earth, air and water. Then 

 there is the crowd of general workers, which you might 

 call common laborers, who compose the main body of the 

 cell. How do the cells communicate with each other? 

 That they have some method of certain and rapid com- 

 munication is clear, and is evidenced by the rapidity with 

 which sensations and ideas are transferred from one place 

 of the body to the other. It has been demonstrated that 

 the nucleus in one cell will take charge of the common 

 laborers and workers in another cell, who have been de- 

 prived of their nucleus. Here is Prof. Wilson's statement 

 of those experiments : "If correct, these experiments give 

 clear evidence of transference of physiological influences 

 from cell to cell by means of the protoplasmic bridges, 

 showing that the nucleus in one cell may thus control the 

 membrane-forming activity in an unnucleated fragment 

 of another cell." This is very significant in showing with 

 what loyalty they co-operate and work together for the 

 general welfare of the entire colony or body. 



