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the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes

1. : germ cells and their precursors regarded as bearers of hereditary characters and as at all times fundamentally independent of other body cells

2. : the hereditary material of the germ cells : genes

the protoplasm of the germ cells containing the chromosomes.

[1885-90]

germ plasm noun

In early theories of inheritance, the name given to the heritable material, which is now known to be the chromosomes

Main Entry: ↑germ

germ plasm or germ plasma,

1. the germ cells of an organism.

2. the substance, now known to be the chromosomes, in germ cells that transmits hereditary characteristics to the offspring.

n. Biology germ cells, collectively