Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Protoplasm peculiar to a germ or ovum, and supposed to influence or determine the character of the resulting organism, by virtue of its special chemical or molecular composition.
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I never really tried to go back along the germ-plasma line.
Project Pope Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- 1981
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Excerpt: Matter as such produces nothing, changes nothing, does nothing; and however convenient it may afterwards be to abbreviate our nomenclature and our descriptions, we must most carefully realise in the outset that the spermatozoon, the nucleus, the chromosomes or the germ-plasma can never act as matter alone, but only as seats of energy and as centres of force.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2010
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