Noun:

அகவித்தம்,

endospores's Usage Examples:

subtilis, as well as in species not known to form endospores.

The supposed Micrococci present little that is characteristic; the more definite, rod-like form of the Bacilli offers a better means of recognition, though far from an infallible one; in a few cases dark granules, suggestive of endospores, have been found within the rods.

Meyer regards them as chlamydospores, and Klebs as " carpospores " or possibly chlamydospores similar to the endospores of yeast.

The mucilage surrounding endospores of Mucor, conidia of Empusa, 'c.

Only a few genera of bacteria such as Bacillus and Clostridium are capable of forming endospores.

An arthrospore, however, is not a true spore but merely an ordinary vegetative cell which separates and passes into a condition of rest, and such may occur in forms which form endospores, e.

Systems have also been brought forward based on the formation of arthrospores and endospores, but as explained above this is eminently unsatisfactory, as arthrospores are not true spores and both kinds of reproductive bodies are found in one and the same form.

Formerly two kinds of spores were described, arthrospores and endospores.

The existence of ciliated micrococci together with the formation of endospores - structures not known in the Cyanophyceae - reminds us of the flagellate Protozoa, e.

Resemblances also exist between the endospores and the spore-formations in the Saccharomycetes, and if Bacillus inflatus, B.