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they are in no sense sperms. In the red algae and the fungi it is 

 the nucleus (together with whatever cytoplasm that passes on 

 with it) that is, if anything, comparable or analogous to a 

 sperm. When, therefore, one places either the orange-colored 

 conidia or the microconidia of Neurospora on the receptive or- 

 gans, as was done in the experiments described above, he really 

 does not spermatize, he merely conidiates or microconidiates 

 (spermatiates), just as one pollinates. 



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