A miorobo matures in a few minutes and divides, • becoming two. If division takes placo only once an hour, the descendants from tho first one will, at the end of 24 hours,' number 17,000,000 adult individuals. ' They a3so have their periods of quiescence. They may be dormant for years, until somothing occurs to stimulate thom to renewed activity aud multiplication.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 35, 5 November 1920, Page 7
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60Untitled Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 35, 5 November 1920, Page 7
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