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Plasm   Listen
noun
Plasm  n.  
1.
A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape. (R.)
2.
(Biol.) Same as Plasma.





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"Plasm" Quotes from Famous Books



... together the accumulating observations of the numerous cytologists of his time, and utilizing them for the development of his somewhat speculative theories, Weismann published in 1882 a volume called "The Germ Plasm," which is an immortal foundation for all later work on inheritance. The essential principles of the germ-plasm theory are somewhat as follows. The chromatin of the nucleus contains the determinants of hereditary qualities. In reproduction, ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton
... that color," Gusterson informed him with happy bitterness. "I like it too—the glass, I mean, not the tint. People who live in glass houses can see the stars—especially when there's a window-washing streak in their germ-plasm." ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... collected a number of cases in which more or less marked variations have suddenly appeared. These are taken for the most part from among domesticated animals which have been bred and crossed for a long time, and it is hardly to be wondered at that their much mixed and much influenced germ-plasm should, under certain conditions, give rise to remarkable phenomena, often indeed producing forms which are strongly suggestive of monstrosities, and which would undoubtedly not survive in free nature, unprotected by man. I should regard such cases as due to an intensified ...
— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel


Words linked to "Plasm" :   protoplasm, gamma globulin, blood plasma, ECF, germ plasm, living substance


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