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Germ plasm (German: Keimplasma) is a
biological concept developed in the 19th
century by the
German biologist August Weismann. It
states that heritable...
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first Professor of
Zoology at Freiburg. His main
contribution involved germ plasm theory, at one time also
known as Weismannism,
according to
which inheritance...
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primordial germ cells before this
hypothesis on the
evolution of
germ plasm can be
backed by
strong evidence.
Primordial germ cells,
germ cells that still...
- Vererbung″ (German for The
Germ Plasm: a
theory of inheritance). The use of this theory,
commonly in the
context of the
germ plasm theory of the late 19th...
- germ
plasm from
other cells. The
germ plasm effectively turns off gene
expression to
render the
genome of the cell inert.
Cells expressing germ plasm become...
- de
Vries wondered what the
nature of
germ plasm might be, and in
particular he
wondered whether or not
germ plasm was
mixed like
paint or
whether the information...
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August Weismann in 1892,
distinguishes between the "immortal"
germ cell
lineages (the
germ plasm)
which produce gametes and the "disposable"
somatic cells...
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Theorie der
Vererbung ("The
Germ Plasm: a
Theory of Inheritance"), was that the
hereditary material,
which he
called the
germ plasm, and the rest of the body...
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biologist August Weismann proposed in his
germ plasm theory that
heritable information is
transmitted only via
germ cells,
which he
thought contained determinants...
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early embryo via
inheritance of
germ plasm (a
mixture of RNA and
protein often ****ociated with mitochondria).
Germ cells from
these four
locations will...
