Ciliate conjugation is a sexual phenomenon that results in genetic recombination and nuclear reorganization within the cell. In most ciliate groups, however, the cells separate after conjugation, and both form new macronuclei from their micronuclei.
Before the bun, hamburgers are said to have been served between two pieces of bread. In fact, a ground beef patty was known as Hamburger steak (first mentioned in an American cookbook in 1891); when this was put between bread or in a bun it was called a Hamburger sandwich.
Referring to ground beef as hamburger dates to the invention of the mechanical meat choppers during the 1800s. It was not until the early nineteenth century that wood, tin, and pewter cylinders with wooden plunger pushers became common.