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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, a hypothetical unit or ultimate element of living matter, which is imagined as independent of cell-boundaries, as the real builder of the organism, as the bearer of heredity, and as the seat of all growth, assimilation, reproduction, and regeneration.
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