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live or somatic cells, and reproducing or reproductive cells. 

 The differentiation is carried a step farther in the case of Pleo- 

 dorina where twenty-eight of the cells are capable of reproduc- 

 ing, while the remaining four cells, making up the thirty-two 

 cell colony, are purely vegetative and do not reproduce. Here 

 there is a permanent differentiation in the colony and a long 

 step toward the metazoan condition. In some colonies finally, 

 as in Gonium perforate, the method of development approaches 



FIG. 32. Reproduction of Gonium pectorale. Each of the sixteen cells of the 

 ordinary colony (see Fig. 25) divides until a sixteen-cell stage results; the old 

 colony then breaks up and the sixteen young colonies grow independently. 



closely to that of metazoa. The organism consists of sixteen 

 cells arranged as in Fig. 25. When ready to reproduce, each cell 

 of the colony divides first into two cells; these cells do not sepa- 

 rate but while still connected they divide again into four, these 

 four divide into eight, and the eight ultimately into sixteen. 

 Each cell of the parent organism, therefore, gives rise to a new 

 colony of sixteen cells, each of which is liberated as a colony 

 by dissolution of the original jelly mantle (Fig. 32). Here then 

 is a process of development, an embryology in the case of a pro- 

 tozoon, in which all of the constituent cells are potentially 



