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Definition of Biophor
1. a hypothetical unit of living matter [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biophor
Literary usage of Biophor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"Suppose the biophor to be cubical, it would contain ten in a row, ... Then the
diameter of the biophor would be the^sum of ten molecules, ..."
2. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1897)
"That is to say the smallest particle of matter visible to the highest microscopic
powers, Then 1 biophor = ^nr.Vrnr mm- in diameter. ..."
3. Popular Science News (1902)
"... nor would it be just to infer that each of these million million cells must
have a representative gemmule or biophor, for both Darwin and Weis- mann ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"Weismann's estimates as to the dimensions of the vital unit to which he gives
the name of biophor may be shortly stated. He takes the diameter of a molecule ..."
5. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1908)
"Weismann has never seen a biophor nor a determinant, but imagines them to exist,
just as the chemist imagines atoms to exist, never having seen them, ..."
6. The Germ-plasm: A Theory of Heredity by August Weismann (1893)
"Unfortunately, however, we are completely ignorant on these points, nor do we
even know how many molecules take part in the construction of a biophor: even ..."
7. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1894)
"The biophor is said to be the smallest unit which exhibits the primary vital ...
For instance, a particular biophor may be composed of 7 (or any other ..."
8. Heredity and Selection in Sociology by Georges Chatterton-Hill (1907)
"But the biophor, which is the vehicle of the capacity of forming a muscle-cell
or a chlorophyll cell identical to the muscle-cell or to the chlorophyll cell ..."
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