plasm

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The environment modifies only the soma-plasm, the organs and tissues of the body.

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  1. noun See germ plasm.
  2. noun Variant of plasma.

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  • To address the role of RNA localization and translational control more systematically, we assembled a comprehensive set of RNAs that are localized to polar granules, the characteristic germ-plasm organelles. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • There are the problems of germ-plasm, and its transmission; the effect on it, if any, of the body, and the reaction of the body to its environment. —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
  • A chronic alcoholic has a defective germ-plasm, and his children are apt to be defective. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • If we are to regard the body as a trustee of the germ-plasm, it is evident that the body which carries the germ-plasm with itself to the grave--the "immortality of the germ-plasm" being only conditional and at the mercy of the acts of individuals--has stultified Nature's end; and it will be a serious concern of ours in the present work to show how, amongst human beings, at any rate, this stultification may be averted, many childless persons of both sexes having served the race for evermore in the highest degree. —  Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
  • I believe that hundreds of thousands, nay millions, of preceding years were substantially sterile just because the educational acquirements of individuals could be transmitted to their children neither in the germ-plasm (for we know such transmission to be impossible), nor outside the germ-plasm, by means of writing. —  Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
 

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  1. from Late Latin plasma, from Greek πλάσμα, a figure formed or molded from clay or wax, an image, counterfeit, an assumed form or manner, from πλάσσ, σ1ειν, form, mold: see plastic.
 

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