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What is a plasm?

What is a plasm? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
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At gastrulation, the germ plasm is located in cells in the floor of the blastocoel cavity, among the cells that give rise to the endoderm.
Transgenic flies were then produced using the standard embryo pole plasm injection technique.
Analysis of homozygous germline clones can be employed to reveal the role of pleiotropic genes in pole plasm formation.
When screening germ plasm for Karnal bunt resistance, allantoid secondary sporidia produced in solid media should be used as inoculum.
Prominent among the defenders of natural selection was the German biologist August Weismann, who in the 1880s published his germ plasm theory.
He has been evaluating 53 accessions of hairy vetch in the USDA germ plasm collection to identify plants useful as parental material.

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