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A World in a Drop of Water: Exploring with a Microscope (Dover Children’s Science Books)

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Within each and every drop of pond water lurks an invisible world, alive with an amazing variety of microscopic animals. And with the assistance of this book and a microscope, you’ll be able to bring these tiny creatures into focal point and discover the ways in which they live.
You’ll trace the path of a blob-like amoeba as it stretches out its pseudopods to hunt and gobble up its prey, and You can see the life-or-death water ballet of a slipper-shaped paramecium as it swims away from its mortal enemy, the pincushion-shaped suctorian. You can also meet the euglena, classified as both plant and animal; the rotifer, a creature with two wheels of whirling hairlike projections that assist it move by squeezing out and in like an accordion; and the improbable hydra, a fearsome bully that repeatedly threatens other small animals with its crown of grasping tentacles.
With this book, your key to the world of single-celled organisms, You can learn fascinating lessons about how these extraordinary animals eat, reproduce, and defend themselves. Enter their microscopic domain and see for yourself!

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