BEHAVIOR AND FUNCTION OF LYMPHOCYTES IN RELATION TO THEIR BASIC NUCLEAR UNITS

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This paper records a discovery of basic, partially independent nuclear units that lie within a common nuclear membrane of some vertebrate cells. The cells concerned are found in series from small (1–2 μ) to large (10–15 μ or more). The smallest cells possess one basic nuclear unit, the larger cells have several. The series of cells from small to large represent stages of a life cycle. Certain of the basic nuclear units act as reproductive organelles and certain large cells are parent cells producing new small cells thus closing one life cycle and starting another. The large cells are formed from the small cells through a series of fusions. The basic nuclear units behave similarly to micronuclei, the reproductive organelles in ciliates, but the fusions of the vertebrate cells are permanent, not temporary unions such as conjugation in ciliates.

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