idioplasm
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In fact, it appears as if the idioplasm knew what parts of the plant were wanting, and what it must do to restore the integrity and vital capacity of the individual.'
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
Further, since the ontogeny begins as a unicellular organism with the formation of a germ cell, that determinant of the idioplasm comes first to development, which has developed in the unicellular ancestor.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Carl Von Nägeli
Their nature depends also on their idioplasm, i.e., on the sum total of their idioplasmic determinants.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Carl Von Nägeli
Thus the configuration of the idioplasm becomes continually more and more complex and at the same time assumes a local adaptation corresponding to external conditions.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Carl Von Nägeli
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
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