Amphimixis: the mingling of the germ plasm of two individuals.
The characteristics of this detached bit of germ plasm are interesting.
The heredity block was a racial quantity, the germ plasm, but not just that.
The germ plasm is a most interesting and remarkable substance.
These depend on what potentialities are stored up in the germ plasm.
But it is not so easy to see how this germ plasm can undergo variation.
An individual is picked out from the population in order to get a particular kind of germ plasm.
Are acquired powers transmitted to posterity, or is the germ plasm unaffected by its environment?
The 'germ plasm' from which they came is and has been immortal; we are simply its transmitters—not its creators.
We are in no sense responsible for what they may be; germ plasm is eternal; we are exempt from responsibility to posterity.
germ plasm n.
The cytoplasm of a germ cell, especially that part containing the chromosomes.
Germ cells as distinguished from other body cells.
Hereditary material; genes.
