Abstract
CERTAIN cellular properties of the large free living amoebae, Amoeba proteus and Amoeba discoides, such as sensitivity to streptomycin and nuclear diameter, have been shown to be influenced by self-replicating cyto-plasmic hereditary determinants1. A. proteus is more sensitive to streptomycin and has a greater nuclear diameter than A. discoides2,3. Micro-injection of small quantities of cytoplasm of A. discoides into recipient A. proteus results in the transfer and expression of the determinant studied—for example, lowered sensitivity to streptomycin—for a small fraction of the clones derived from cells surviving the operation1.
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