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If we have in mind the inner nature of the organism, there is, properly speaking, no such specific phenomenon as heredity, since the phylogenetic line is a continuous idioplasmic individual.

From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von

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 Nägeli, Carl Von

In this sense heredity is nothing more than the persistence of organized substance in a movement in which variations are automatically induced, or the necessary transition of one idioplasmic configuration into the next following.

From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von

But these phenomena belong to another department of science; they concern the possibility and reality of development of the idioplasmic determinants.

From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von