germ plasm

the protoplasm of the germ cells containing the chromosomes.

Origin of germ plasm

First recorded in 1885–90

But the constitution of germ-plasm is much more complex than that of any of the structures which are developed therefrom.

Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume II (of 3) |George John Romanes
The explanation is, the germ-plasm was not in any way affected by the bodily mutilation.

Homo-culture |Martin Luther Holbrook
Why should not this germ-plasm, this eternal ghost, be infinitely sophisticated?

The Secret Life |Elizabeth Bisland
The somatoplasm can only in the most general way affect the self-perpetuating, close corporation of the germ-plasm.

The Whence and the Whither of Man |John Mason Tyler

Independent multiple factors in the germ-plasm, as in the case of wheat mentioned a few pages back.

Applied Eugenics |Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

germ plasm

the part of a germ cell that contains hereditary material; the chromosomes and genes
the germ cells collectivelyCompare somatoplasm

germ plasm

The cytoplasm of a germ cell, especially that part containing the chromosomes.

Germ cells as distinguished from other body cells.

Hereditary material; genes.