...as a mere label, with no more subjective significance attached to it. Secondly, a protist individnal is not the homologue of a single cell in the body of a multicellular animal or plant; but it is homologous with a whole multicellular organism. The protist...

...correspond to a minute fragment of the metazoan body, one of its myriads of cells, but to the whole body. "The body of a protozoan is not the homologue of a single cell in the body of a metazoan, and hence the succession of individuals formed from one conjugation to the next, is not comparable...

...organism. If the cell, as such, is in reality the ultimate unity that the elementalist conceives rt then the only difference between the protozoan and...single cell of the metazoan but to the whole body. •\y With the advance of biological science the cell failed to maintain its place as an ultimate structural...

...cell multiplied by a certain number, the mathematical sum of the cell units, but as Dobell says :4 " The body of a protozoan is not the homologue of a...elementalist continued his search in regions of different 3 Op. cit. « Dobell, C. C, cited by Ritter, op. cit. dimensions for the explanation of life phenomena....

...monocellular organism. The metazoa and metaphyta are not "cell-colonies" or "cell-aggregations,"12 "the body of a protozoan is not the homologue of a single cell in the body of a metazoan,"13 " the protist body does not correspond to a minute fragment of the metazoan body, one...

...as a mere label, with no more subjective significance attached to it. Secondly, a protist individual is not the homologue of a single cell in the body of a multicellular animal or plant; but it is homologous with a whole multicellular organism. The protist...