Crossword-Solution: GERMPLASM
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
EATGA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with GERMPLASM (5)
This medium is what Weismann terms the “germplasm.” It carries the memories of the whole evolution of the race.
But some strains of germplasm carry an excessive freightage of memories—are, to be scientific, more atavistic than other strains; and such a strain is mine.
While Galton was working in England the German zoologist August Weismann was elaborating the complicated {14} theory of heredity which eventually appeared in his work on _The Germplasm_ (1885), a book which will be remembered for one notable contribution to the subject.
Weismann's theory involved the conception of a sharp cleavage between the general body tissues or somatoplasm and the reproductive glands or germplasm.
The individual was merely a carrier for the essential germplasm whose properties had been determined long before he was capable of leading a separate existence.
Quotes with GERMPLASM (1)
And in those same years, the farmers in the developing world would come to be encouraged to use the patented descendants of the seeds their ancestors had once freely shared. And once they did that, once they bought the new seed and stopped saving seed as they had for centuries, they not only lost the old varieties but they were trapped in a system that indentured them to the seed companies. And if they resisted buying the new seeds, even if they resisted because they were not…