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A World in a Drop of Water : Exploring with a Microscope
A World in a Drop of Water Exploring with a Microscope Author:Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein A great introduction to the world of single-celled organisms, this inexpensive volume showcases an array of curious creatures: a blob-like amoeba; a slipper-shaped paramecium and its mortal enemy, the suctorian; the hydra and its crown of grasping tentacles; and many others. The authors recount the feeding, reproductive, and defensive strategies... more » employed by these animals in easy-to-understand language that opens the door to a wonderful world of discovery. 1969 edition. 37 illus.« less