THE INTERLUDE OF CANCER 127
TABLE OF REVISED COMPARISON OF ANIMAL
AND PLANT LIFE-CYCLES.
In
the above table n equals the reduced number of chromosomes, and 1 n
signifies the emancipated cell, 2 n the duplicated or conjugated cell,
the “conjugation” or joining together being carried out at fertilization. The “
reduction” is the undoing of the previous duplication effected at conjugation.