The nature of heredity is based upon the transmission of nuclear substance with a specific molecular constitution. This substance is the specific nucleoplasm of the germ-cell, to which I have given the name of germ-plasm.


Trans. Joseph S. Fruton, Proteins, Enzymes, Genes: The Interplay of Chemistry and Biology (1999)

August Weismann Quotes

The nature of heredity is based upon the transmission of nuclear substance with a specific molecular constitution. This substance is the specific...

The nature of heredity is based upon the transmission of nuclear substance with a specific molecular constitution. This substance is the specific...

The nature of heredity is based upon the transmission of nuclear substance with a specific molecular constitution. This substance is the specific...

The nature of heredity is based upon the transmission of nuclear substance with a specific molecular constitution. This substance is the specific...