mating
Description:
Frontonia (front-own-ee-a) is a peniculine ciliate and closely related to the familiar Paramecium. Two cells seen joined at the mouth like this are mating (undergoing conjugation, a process in which haploid nuclei are exchanged between the partners). Phase contrast.,
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- SAR (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, Rhizaria)
- Alveolata (alveolates)
- Ciliophora (ciliates)
- Intramacronucleata
- Oligohymenophorea
- Peniculida (Peniculid)
- Frontoniidae
- Frontonia
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