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 Hertwig, Oscar
In obedience to these, a division of the nucleus accompanies each qualitative change in the idioplasm, in which process the different qualities are distributed between the two resulting halves of the chromatin rods.'
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar
This constitutes the automatic perfecting process or progression of the idioplasm, and entropy of organic matter.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von
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 Nägeli, Carl Von
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 Nägeli, Carl Von
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