Everyone loves Volvox


This past weekend, I was off at Lake Itasca with a group of new biology students, and one of the things they did was collect plankton and bring them back to the lab where we took micrographs of what they found — lots of algae and crustaceans and rotifers, etc., etc. But we also saw some colonial protists, and one of the things I saw the students excitedly discuss was Volvox. It’s always nice when I can just sit down and shut up and the students are enthusiastically explaining to each other how biology works.

So, anyway, I think I know a few more people who are in the market for the swag mentioned by Matthew Herron.

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Comments

  1. ajbjasus says

    Yay ! And another shout out for my old buddy dictyostelium discoideum, another micro-organism which lives in the fuzzy interface between unicellular and multicellular lifestyles.

  2. dick says

    I can just sit down and shut up and the students are enthusiastically explaining to each other how biology works.

    Looks like you’ve got it made, this year, anyways! (And none of ’em believe Goddidit, eh?)

  3. Derek Vandivere says

    Students teaching each other? All you need now is a couple of good VHS tapes and you’re on easy street. (;

  4. Matthew Herron says

    “…one of the things I saw the students excitedly discuss was Volvox.

    Warms my heart.