The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 01 (of 10)Hickson, Sydney J. (Sydney John)
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The Cambridge natural history, Vol. 01 (of 10)
Hickson, Sydney J. (Sydney John)
Animals
The two modes of Anabolism—true "assimilation" in the strictest sense and
"accumulation"—may sometimes go on concurrently, a certain proportion of
the food material going to the protoplasm, and the rest, after allowing for
waste, being converted into reserves.
MOVEMENTS all demand catabolic changes, and we now proceed to consider
these in more detail.
The movements of an Amoeboid[22] cell are of two kinds: "expansion,"
leading to the formation and enlargement of {17}outgrowths, and
"contraction," leading to their diminution and disappearance within the
general surface.[23] Expansion is probably due to the lessening of the
surface-tension at the point of outgrowth, contraction to the increase of
surface-tension. Verworn regards these as due respectively to the
combination of the oxygen in the medium with the protoplasm in diminishing
surface-tension, and the effect of combination with substances from within,
especially from the nucleus in increasing it. Besides these external
movements, there are internal movements revealed by the contained granules,
which stream freely in the more fluid interior. Those Protista that, while
exhibiting amoeboid movements, have no clear external layer, such as the
Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Heliozoa, etc., present this streaming even at
the surface, the granules travelling up and down the pseudopodia at a rate
much greater than the movements of these organs themselves. In this case
the protoplasm is wetted by the medium, which it is not where there is a
clear outer layer: for that behaves like a greasy film.
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