Silverstein's World in a Drop: Exploring with a Microscope (Dover Children's Science Books) - Softcover

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Silverstein, Alvin

 
9780486403816: Silverstein's World in a Drop: Exploring with a Microscope (Dover Children's Science Books)

Synopsis

This inexpensive volume showcases an array of curious creatures: a blob-like amoeba; a slipper-shaped paramecium and its mortal enemy, the suctorian; and many others. The authors recount the feeding, reproductive, and defensive strategies employed by these animals in easy-to-understand language that opens the door to a wonderful world of discovery. 37 illustrations.

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Synopsis

Describes the structure and characteristics of the amoeba, paramecium, and other members of the "circus" that Leeuwenhoek discovered in a drop of water.

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9780216883611: World in a Drop of Water

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ISBN 10:  021688361X ISBN 13:  9780216883611
Publisher: Blackie & Son, 1970
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