Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
germ-plasma .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Same as
idioplasma .
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- noun Alternative form of
idioplasma .
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Examples
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By division of the fertilized egg into cells, the idioplasm would be - come distributed to every new cell and give to each its hereditary character.
GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968
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It was August Weismann, once a student of Nägeli, who undertook the task of properly relating Nägeli's concept of the idioplasm to the recent developments of cytology.
GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968
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Evolution was thought to take place through changes in the idioplasm, changes going on continuously and impelled by some inherent force toward inevitable change.
GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968
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Nägeli's idioplasm with the chromosomes, but Weis - mann extended the conception to the postulate that each chromosome is made up of hereditary elements he called “ids,” which in turn are composed of heredi - tary determinants for each inherited characteristic.
GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968
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But his internal "principle of progress" is at the bottom just as teleological as the vital force of the Vitalists, and the micella structure of the idioplasm is just as hypothetical as the "dominant" structure of the germ-plasm.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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_Mechanisch-Physiologische Theorie der Abstammungslehre_ [130] which is to a great extent in agreement with Weismann, constructed a theory of the idioplasm, that represents it (like the germ-plasm) as developing continuously in a definite direction from internal causes.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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