idioplasm
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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 Hertwig, Oscar
From the fact that a phylogenetic race is thrown repeatedly among different external conditions, it may at last unite in its idioplasm a large number of developing, mature, and vanishing adaptation determinants.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von
Hence along with growing and complete determinants the idioplasm always contains likewise weakened and vanishing determinants.
From A Mechanico-Physiological Theory of Organic Evolution by Nägeli, Carl Von
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
Idioplasm, as opposed to germplasm, which is the nuclear material of germ-cells; idioplasm is the nuclear material of tissue-cells, xi, 38.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar
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