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nuclei

Image of Chaos carolinense

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The genus Chaos is one of a small group of large (over half a millimetre) free-living amoebae, and is distinguished largely because it has numerous nuclei. The nuclei are about 20 microbs in diamter and have granular deposits of heterochromatin around the inner margins of the nucleus. These nuclei were images in a dying cell. Phase contrast micrograph.

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David J Patterson
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