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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The conception that all portions of the protoplasm of plants and animals are concerned in determining the forms and functions of the cells, as opposed to the conceptions which attribute the formative agency to particular cell-elements such as the idioplasm, nucleus, etc.

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