- a variation of plasma.
plasm
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The new individual consists, from the start, of two sorts of plasm.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2019
This old plant stuff also became the germ plasm that Mr. Grant has tapped to breed and select new ornamentals.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2018
Huxley would later admit that he was wrong about the deep-sea muck, but many 19th-century biologists thought that plasm was the stuff of life.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016
It holds more than 500,000 samples of crop germ plasm, providing a backup for the national and international seed banks that donated the material.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2015
Some would-be architects of our future look toward a time when it will be possible to alter the human germ plasm by design.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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