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HAROLD’S DISCUSSIONS. 
in this is the nucleus or harder center, which contains 
the life germ. 
If we continue to watch the ameba we shall see 
that after a while it begins to contract in the middle. 
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Fig. 113.—Rhizopods. Three kinds distinguishable by their caps. 
The nucleus divides into two parts, and right before 
our eyes the little ameba becomes two amebas. In¬ 
stead of the mother we see two daughters. These can 
Fig. 114.—Dallingeria with her family. 
do what the mother did. They, too, soon attain their 
growth, and each divides and becomes two amebas. 
