Professor Lorande observed a family of tiny microscopic creatures for five years. They multiply by the simple process of splitting into two complete living parts, and tney do it once every sixteen hours. During the five years the family produced 3029 generations. Had all survived their combined mass would have been 10,000 times a» big ai that of the earth!
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 222, 18 September 1940, Page 13
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60Page 13 Advertisements Column 2 Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 222, 18 September 1940, Page 13
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