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Definition of Biophors
1. biophor [n] - See also: biophor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biophors
Literary usage of Biophors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"... the Determinants become Disintegrated into biophors I will conclude this
chapter with some remarks which might have been more suitably inserted in the ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1894)
"These particles he terms biophors. The bio- phors are to molecules what molecules
are to atoms. Just as the molecule is due to the combination and grouping ..."
3. Darwinism To-day: A Discussion of Present-day Scientific Criticism of the by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"These biophors are not, however, such simple structures as the atoms of the ...
Moreover, as these biophors are life-units, they possess the essential ..."
4. Biology, General and Medical by Joseph McFarland (1920)
""All the phenomena of heredity depend upon minute vital units which we have called
biophors and of wliich living matter is composed: these are capable of ..."
5. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"These biophors are not, however, such simple structures as the atoms of the ...
Moreover, as these biophors are life-units, they possess the essential ..."
6. The Evolution Theory by August Weismann (1904)
"If we assume with Zehnder that two kinds of ' nutritive' biophors are brought
together which differ slightly from each other in digestive capacity, ..."
7. Against Dogma and Free-will and for Weismanism by H. Croft Hiller (1893)
"Similarly, a certain combination of organisms composed of biophors, which organisms
are called by Weismann, determinants, is germ-plasm. ..."
8. Popular Science News (1902)
"The cause of variation must be due to the direct effect of external influences
on the biophors and determinants. It can no longer be doubted that climatic ..."
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