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discuss the life history of volvox in brief.

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discuss the life history of volvox in brief.

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Vikram Saxena

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first reported observations of Volvox in 1700.^[7]

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Ancestors of Volvox transitioned from single cells to form multicellular colonies at least 200 million years ago, during the Triassic period.^[2]^[8] An estimate using DNA sequences from about 45 different species of Volvox and related species suggests that the transition from single cells to undifferentiated multicellular colonies took about 35 million years.^[

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