Life-Cycle of Volvox #biology #microbiology #science #laboratory #neet #biology

Suraj Radhakrishnan on Instagram: "Volvox are beautiful under 🔬 Volvox is a genus of green algae that forms spherical or oval colonies of thousands of cells. Each cell has two flagella, a chloroplast, a nucleus, an eyespot and a vacuole. The cells are connected by cytoplasmic strands and arranged in a single layer on the surface of a hollow sphere called coenobium. The coenobium contains an extracellular matrix made of glycoproteins and sometimes daughter colonies that are produced by specializ