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- <text id=92TT1105>
- <title>
- May 18, 1992: Love, Amoeba-Style
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 18, 1992 Roger Keith Coleman:Due to Die
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 26
- MISCELLANY
- Love, Amoeba-Style
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- <p> About the only excitement in an amoeba's life is the chance
- to inflict major intestinal distress on unwary world travelers.
- And as every high school student knows, these one-celled blobs of
- protoplasm never get to fool around; they reproduce asexually,
- by splitting in two. But now comes a report in the journal
- Heredity that suggests amoebas are not dull so much as discreet.
- French scientists have looked at the genetic material of species
- of amoebas and found that their genes show the telltale signs
- of sexual mixing. They've never been caught in the act, though,
- so the question is, Will Jesse Helms find some way to label
- amoeba research indecent anyway?
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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