plasm

Example Sentences

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The new individual consists, from the start, of two sorts of plasm.

From The New Yorker

Although dismaying to some Lee fans, the belated publication of “Watchman,” an apprentice work containing the germ plasm of “Mockingbird,” cast light on the virtues and limitations of the author and her canonical novel.

From New York Times

This old plant stuff also became the germ plasm that Mr. Grant has tapped to breed and select new ornamentals.

From New York Times

Fourth, he keeps on describing Facebook as a “community” based on “friendship,” rather than what it is — a social utility that occasionally reveals itself as a seething plasm of technologically mediated dislocation.

From Salon

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