somatoplasm
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From this point of view every individual consists of only two parts,—germ-plasm and soma or somatoplasm.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
Weismann's theory involved the conception of a sharp cleavage between the general body tissues or somatoplasm and the reproductive glands or germplasm.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
The germ-plasm can increase indefinitely in the lapse of generations, increase of the somatoplasm is limited.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
The process of changing germ-plasm into somatoplasm is one of disintegration.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
A large part of the germ-plasm of the fertilized egg is used to give rise to the somatoplasm composing the different systems of the embryo and adult.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
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