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HEREDITY IN THE PROTOZOA 



Similarly in asexual reproduction through buds, 

 stolons, tubers and cuttings, the new plants inherit 

 the parental complex, and breed true as they would 

 have done had they remained a part of the original 



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0065 



6 3 ., 



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Fig. 65. — Diagram showing variation in S pure lines of Paramoeciuin. 



(After Jennings.) 



plant. Here again if plastid inheritance appears, 

 it is regarded as a special sort of inheritance that 

 involves a mechanism different from that of Men- 

 delian inheritance. 



