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  biology - Coenocyte
It can result from multiple nuclear divisions without accompanying cell divisions, or from cellular aggregation followed by dissolution of the cell membranes inside the mass.
Coenocytes are found in fungi and some protists, such as algae and slime mould.
Some plant structures, such as endosperm, are coenocytic as well.
www.biologydaily.com /biology/Coenocyte   (72 words)

  
 Coenocyte -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A coenocyte is a multinucleate ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals) cell.
Some plant structures, such as (Nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants) endosperm, are coenocytic as well.
See also: (Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus) hypha.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/coenocyte.htm   (73 words)

  
 ALGAE - Online Information article about ALGAE
Usually two cilia are present; in Bolrydium and Hydrodictyon only one is present; in certain species of Cladophora four; in Dasydadus a chaplet, and in Oedogonium a ring of many cilia.
The so-called zoospore of Vaucheria is a coenocyte covered over with paired cilia corresponding in position to nuclei lying below.
In coenocytic forms the zoospores would seem to arise simultaneously, probably because many nuclei are already present.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /AJA_ALL/ALGAE.html   (8592 words)

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