plasm

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

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.

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

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.

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