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The New International Encyclopædia/Germ-Plasm

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Edition of 1906. See also Germ plasm on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.

GERM-PLASM. The kind of protoplasm supposed by some embryologists peculiar to the germinal part of the ovum and regarded as containing such chemical or molecular composition and properties as to determine the special character of the resulting organism. This singularity is supposed to be inherited and so continue from generation to generation.