The Wonders of Plant Life Under the MicroscopeG.P. Putnam's sons, 1883 - 248 páginas |
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... functions , with the cell . In Nature's infinite vari- ety there is nothing half so wonderful as the unity which ... function of life , cells which go to make up every kind of tissue , yet , it is true , that every organic structure is ...
... functions , with the cell . In Nature's infinite vari- ety there is nothing half so wonderful as the unity which ... function of life , cells which go to make up every kind of tissue , yet , it is true , that every organic structure is ...
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... functions . Protoplasm is more or less capable of pouring or flowing like a liquid , in proportion as it has absorbed more or less water ; but it is never in any true sense a fluid . It is endowed with forces which give it the capacity ...
... functions . Protoplasm is more or less capable of pouring or flowing like a liquid , in proportion as it has absorbed more or less water ; but it is never in any true sense a fluid . It is endowed with forces which give it the capacity ...
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... functions . The protoplasmic masses which are associated with the coloring matter are found to retain , not only their shape but also their former volume , after the chlorophyll is abstracted . Each chlorophyll body is therefore ...
... functions . The protoplasmic masses which are associated with the coloring matter are found to retain , not only their shape but also their former volume , after the chlorophyll is abstracted . Each chlorophyll body is therefore ...
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... functions of life . It is a sort of banding together of independent savages for the purpose of mutual protection and ... function to perform for the whole ,. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE . 13.
... functions of life . It is a sort of banding together of independent savages for the purpose of mutual protection and ... function to perform for the whole ,. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE . 13.
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Sophia M'llvaine Bledsoe Herrick. cell has its function to perform for the whole , and it becomes modified , as it develops , with reference to its special work . The higher physical , as well as the higher social , life is characterized ...
Sophia M'llvaine Bledsoe Herrick. cell has its function to perform for the whole , and it becomes modified , as it develops , with reference to its special work . The higher physical , as well as the higher social , life is characterized ...
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The Wonders of Plant Life Under the Microscope Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick Vista completa - 1906 |
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Página 70 - The universality of the appearance of these simple forms of fungi upon all spots favourable to their development, has given rise to the belief that they are spontaneously produced by decaying substances, but there is no occasion for this mode of accounting for it, since the extraordinary means adopted by nature for the production and diffusion of the germs of these plants adequately suffices to explain the facts of the case. "The number of sporules which any one fungus may develope is almost incalculable...
Página 27 - I see no reason whatever that justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess. I have sometimes perhaps felt a little uneasy at Exeter Change from contrasting the monkeys with the...
Página 27 - I feel myself so much at my ease about the superiority of mankind — I have such a marked and decided contempt for the understanding of every baboon I have yet seen— I feel so sure that the blue ape without a tail will never rival us in poetry, painting, and music, that I see no reason whatever why justice may not be done to the few fragments of soul and tatters of understanding which they may really possess.
Página 203 - ... the flower ; and that the object of the flap and its sugar is also to attract insects, but with a very different result, cannot be doubted. It is hence conceivable that this marvellous plant lures insects to its flowers for one object, and feeds them while it uses them to fertilize itself, and that, this accomplished, some of its benefactors are thereafter lured to its pitchers for the sake of feeding itself...