plasm

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Some would-be architects of our future look toward a time when we will be able to alter the human germ plasm by design.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 3, 2017

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

It is up to a small group of trustees and advisers to determine whether a severe emergency or some other circumstance requires release of the frozen germ plasm.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2010

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