According to his theory, germ plasm, which is independent from all other cells of the body (somatoplasm), is the essential element of germ cells (eggs and sperm) and is the hereditary …

Germ plasm (German: Keimplasma) is a biological concept developed in the 19th century by the German biologist August Weismann. It states that heritable information is transmitted only by …

Jan 26, 2015 · In The Germ-Plasm, Weismann proposed a theory of heredity based on the concept of the germ plasm, a substance in the germ cell that carries hereditary information.

The germ plasm theory was first proposed by August Weismann in 1893 and it states that multicellular organisms contain germ cells. These cells provide heritable information that can …

May 23, 2014 · Weismann proposed the theory of the continuity of germ-plasm, a theory of heredity. Weismann postulated that germ-plasm was the hereditary material in cells, and …

His theory of germplasm expresses that multicellular living beings comprise germ cells that contain and communicate heritable data and physical cells which help in completing standard …

Sep 2, 2008 · Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Part I. The material basis of heredity -- 1. The germ-plasm -- Part …

In 1883 the great German biologist August Weismann proposed the “germ-plasm” theory of heredity. The germ-plasm theory states that an organism’s cells are divided into somatic cells …

Here I use August Weismann's defense of his influential germ-plasm theory of inheritance to support my claim that this pattern characterizes the history of theoretical scientific investigation …

Weismann’s solution to this problem was described in his seminal 1893 work The Germ Plasm: A Theory of Heredity, in which he proposed a nuclear substance called the “germ plasm” as the …