Joseph Decaisne

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Joseph Decaisne

French botanist

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Gustave-Adolphe Thuret
…began to study botany under Joseph Decaisne. He became interested in the history and behavior of the marine algae and in about 1840 described the flagella (whiplike structures) of the spermatozoids (male sex cells) of the green alga Chara. In 1844 Decaisne and Thuret announced the finding of spermatozoids in…
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…began to study botany under Joseph Decaisne. He became interested in the history and behavior of the marine algae and in about 1840 described the flagella (whiplike structures) of the spermatozoids (male sex cells) of the green alga Chara. In 1844 Decaisne and Thuret announced the finding of spermatozoids in…
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