Sentence examples for plasm from inspiring English sources
noun
A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
The general idea is still accepted as valid today, though in place of germ plasm one speaks of chromosomes, genes, and DNA.
The cytological work of other investigators proved the correctness of this prediction and enabled Weismann, together with the others, to propose that the germ plasm was located in what were subsequently called the chromosomes of the egg nucleus.
Prominent among the defenders of natural selection was the German biologist August Weismann, who in the 1880s published his germ plasm theory.
Weismann concluded that the hereditary endowment of the organism, which he called the germ plasm, is wholly separate and is protected against the influences emanating from the rest of the body, called the somatoplasm, or soma.
Determinant, in genetics, the term used in the late 19th century by the German biologist August Weismann to describe the component of hereditary material, or germ plasm, that specifies the characteristics of different cells.
The Australian Network for Plant Conservation produced new guidelines for germ plasm (the bearers of heredity) conservation in Australia.
Once these have had their germ plasm preserved, they are sold to other farms to create satellite populations.
The term was first used after 1896 to describe the theories of August Weismann (1834 1914), who asserted that his germ-plasm theory made impossible the inheritance of acquired characteristics and supported natural selection as the only major process that would account for biological evolution.
Although the details of the germ-plasm theory have been modified, its premise of the continuity of hereditary material is the basis of the modern understanding of the process of physical inheritance.
But what if the Ci-ty were a growing neo-plasm, across the centuries, always chang-ing, to meet exactly the chang-ing shape of its very worst, se-cret fears?
He therefore predicted that there must be a form of nuclear division in which each daughter nucleus receives only half the ancestral germ plasms contained in the original nucleus.
