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MEGANUCLEUS (also called MACRONUCLEUS)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 75 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MEGANUCLEUS (also called MACRONUCLEUS) , in See also:Infusoria (q.v.)., the large See also:nucleus which undergoes See also:direct (amitotic) See also:division in fission, and is lost during conjugation, to be replaced by a nucleus, the result of the See also:karyogamy of the micronuclei.

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