Germ plasm
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Germ plasm is a biological concept developed in the 19th century by the German biologist August Weismann. It states that heritable information is transmitted only by germ cells in the gonads, not by s
August Weismann proposed the germ plasm theory in the 19th century, before the foundation of modern genetics.
August Weismann
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August Friedrich Leopold Weismann was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. W
Germ plasm
…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 germ cells in the gonads (ovaries and testes), not by somatic cells. The related idea that…
Aufsätze über Vererbung und verwandte biologische Fragen, 1892