somatoplasm
the cytoplasm of a somatic cell, especially as distinguished from germ plasm.
Origin of somatoplasm
1Other words from somatoplasm
- so·ma·to·plas·tic, adjective
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How to use somatoplasm in a sentence
In these higher animals this protoplasm is known as germplasm, that in body cells as somatoplasm.
Taboo and Genetics | Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary BlanchardThe somatoplasm can only in the most general way affect the self-perpetuating, close corporation of the germ-plasm.
The Whence and the Whither of Man | John Mason TylerThe somatoplasm arises from, and hence must be regarded as a modification of, the germ-plasm.
The Whence and the Whither of Man | John Mason TylerThe germ-plasm can increase indefinitely in the lapse of generations, increase of the somatoplasm is limited.
The Whence and the Whither of Man | John Mason TylerFrom this point of view every individual consists of only two parts,—germ-plasm and soma or somatoplasm.
Applied Eugenics | Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
British Dictionary definitions for somatoplasm
/ (ˈsəʊmətəˌplæzəm) /
biology
the protoplasm of a somatic cell
the somatic cells collectively: Compare germ plasm
Derived forms of somatoplasm
- somatoplastic, adjective
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