Crossword-Solution: METAPHYTA 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Joining which facts with the phenomena presented by the cell-multiplication and aggregation of every unfolding germ, naturalists are now accepting the conclusion that by this process of composition from _Protozoa_, were formed all classes of the _Metazoa_[50]--(as animals formed by this compounding are now called); and that in a similar way from _Protophyta_, were formed all classes of what I suppose will be called _Metaphyta_, though the word does not yet seem to have become current.

Now we have to note that in those aggregates of cells constituting the _Metaphyta_ and _Metazoa_, analogous distributions also exist.

This, of course, is my own theory of the matter as originally published in these columns; but I do not see how it is to be reconciled with Professor Weismann's doctrine of so high a degree of stability on the part of germ-plasm, that we must look to the Protozoa and the Protophyta for the original source of congenital variations as now exhibited by the Metazoa and Metaphyta.

The nucleus plays the same part in the life of the single celled organisms as it does in the cells of the Metazoa and Metaphyta.