It does not matter then which individuals in a pure line are used to breed from, for they all carry the same germ plasm.
An individual is picked out from the population in order to get a particular kind of germ plasm.
Although the different classes of individuals may overlap, so that one can not always judge an individual from its appearance, nevertheless on the whole chance favors the picking out of the kind of germ plasm sought.
This fact of the transmission of the hereditary substance from generation to generation is known as the theory of the continuity of germ plasm.
Now whether this undifferentiated germ plasm, as we will now call it, is distributed all over the body, or is collected at certain points, is immaterial to our purpose.
If the individual is simply the unfolding of the powers possessed by a bit of germ plasm, and if this germ plasm is simply handed on from generation to generation, the successive generations must of necessity be identical.
This explanation is that some of the chromatin material or germ plasm is handed down from one generation to another, and is stored temporarily in the nucleii of the reproductive cells.
The 'germ plasm' from which they came is and has been immortal; we are simply its transmitters--not its creators.
We are in no sense responsible for what they may be; germ plasmis eternal; we are exempt from responsibility to posterity.
The highest form of germ plasm, that with a most complex molecular structure, would hardly be formed if there was a deficiency of nitrogenous matter in the blood.
I have mentioned only a few of the many diseases which affect the germ plasm unfavorably.
That was a marvelous thing about flowers--wherever one went in the universe, plants used the same methods to fertilize their seed and spread their germ plasm.
I've told you a thousand times that the radiation on this ship must have affected Ulf and Lyssa's germ plasm.
One doesn't go around broadcasting data on the variations of one's germ plasm," Brainard said.
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