Definition of Idioplasma. Meaning of Idioplasma. Synonyms of Idioplasma

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Definition of Idioplasma

Idioplasma
Idioplasma Id`i*o*plas"ma, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? proper, peculiar + ? a form, mold.] (Biol.) That portion of the cell protoplasm which is the seat of all active changes, and which carries on the function of hereditary transmission; -- distinguished from the other portion, which is termed nutritive plasma. See Hygroplasm.

Meaning of Idioplasma from wikipedia

- seat of heritability the idioplasma, and argued, with a military metaphor, that a more complex, complicatedly ordered idioplasma would usually defeat a...
- (small bodies or microsomes, Hanstein, 1882), paramitome (Flemming, 1882), Idioplasma (Nageli, 1884), Zwischensubstanz (inter-alveolar substance, Bütschli,...
- hereditary characters from a part of the protoplasm which he called the idioplasma. Nägeli was an advocate of orthogenesis and an opponent of Darwinism....
- Anette Horn, "Nietzsche's interpretation of his sources on Darwinism: Idioplasma, Micells and military troops" Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher...