idioplasm
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Organisms arise from a germ cell which consists of idioplasm and in turn they produce like germ cells.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Carl Von Nägeli
The idioplasm continually alters its configuration with its growth in successive ontogenies, but comparatively very slowly, so that it makes a minute advance from the germ of one generation to the germ of the next.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Carl Von Nägeli
It will be found that characters totally contradictory are ascribed to Weismann's idioplasm.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
Wounds, healing of, in relation to idioplasm, xii.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
All the peculiarities conditioned by the idioplasm remain unchanged in the offspring.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Carl Von Nägeli
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