| SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY | |
| Volvox
Life History van den Hoek et al. (1995) |
| The asexual cycle of Volvox is illustrated a-h with the formation of a coenobium or daughter colony. The sexual cycle is oogamous and haplontic (i-n). Sperm formation (i-k) is followed by the release of the sperm packet, which finds the stationary egg (l-m). They fust to form the zygote (n). |
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