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Definition of Biophore
1. biophor [n -S] - See also: biophor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biophore
Literary usage of Biophore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heredity and Evolution in Plants by Charles Stuart Gager (1920)
"Thus we rise through his categories as follows, from atom to molecule, from
molecule to biophore, from biophore to determinant, from determinant to ids, ..."
2. Biology, General and Medical by Joseph McFarland (1920)
""The facts of inheritance and what we know regarding its histological basis
entirely refute the hypothesis that the biophore molecules as a whole undergo ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"Weismann assumes the diameter of a molecule] to be one 2-millionth of a millimeter,
and that a biophore con-j tains some 1000 molecules. ..."
4. An Investigation of Evolution in Chrysomelid Beetles of the Genus Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower (1906)
"How, then, can we explain this on the basis of the id-determinant-biophore
hypothesis ? By supposing ids, determinants, or bio- phores to have existed ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"By the continued weakening of a biophore until it ultimately disappeared the
quality of the determinant to which it belonged would be changed. ..."
6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1898)
"... of plasti- dule and biophore. But we know only substance. But is there one
fundamental substance, protean in its functions ? ..."