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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of amœbiform mastigopodous protozoans, referred by Haeckel to the Lobosa, by Lankester to the Proteomyxa, having filamentous, ramified, and anastomosing pseudopodia.
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I have indicated how these four masterpieces -- the cancer work, the Fundy model, the Canadarm and the insulin protogenes -- progressed from aesthetics to utility.
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Anyway, I'm glad to be here -- to be in a country where, as protogenes notes, being a liberal isn't a dirty word; it's a party!
August 2005 2005
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We reach the protogenes of Haeckel, in which we have 'a type distinguishable from a fragment of albumen only by its finely granular character. '
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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It seems to me more consistent with the present phase of dynamical science and the observed graduations of living things to suppose the sarcode or the "protogenal" jelly-speck should be formable through the concurrence of conditions favouring such combination of their elements, and involving a change of force productive of their contractions and extensions, molecular attractions, and repulsions -- and the sarcode has so become, from the period when its irrelative repetitions resulted in the vast indefinite masses of the "eozoon," exemplifying the earliest process of "formification" or organic crystallisation -- than that all existing sarcodes or "protogenes" are the result of genetic descent from
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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"protamoebæ;" for if it were served up in advance, there would be none of his little non-nucleated jelly-eaters to partake of it, much less any of his "protogenes."
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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