Credit: FRANK FOX/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Light microscope footage of several colonies of Volvox sp. green algae. This freshwater alga lives in spherical colonies that can include thousands of individual cells. Colonies can reproduce both sexually and asexually, with daughter colonies developing inside the sphere before being released.

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