How To Use Gemmule In A Sentence
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That such a complete collection of gemmules is aggregated in each ovum and spermatozoon in most animals, and in each part capable of reproducing by gemmation (budding) in the lowest animals and in plants.
On the Genesis of Species
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It is remarkable that Mr. Darwin brings forward in support of gemmule fission, the observation that "Thuret has seen the zoospore of an alga divide itself, and both halves germinate.
On the Genesis of Species
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Methods of asexual reproduction include both budding and the formation of gemmules.
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What wonder then that such an excessively complex body should divide and multiply; and what parity is there between such a body and a gemmule?
On the Genesis of Species
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These gemmules circulate throughout the body, and each sex cell eventually accumulates a full set.
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For our "plumule" we have also "gemmule", and French has both of these too.
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We can easily conceive a being so small, that a gemmule would be to it as large as St. Paul's would be to us.
On the Genesis of Species
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Any part of a gemmule would be an impossible (because a _less_ than possible) quantity.
On the Genesis of Species
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Development consisted of the orderly assembly and expression of the gemmules transmitted via the parental germ cells to the progeny.
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In this regard, he likened Darwin's gemmule theory to Newton's corpuscular theory of light and the molecular theory of matter.
Chauncey Wright
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Darwin's keen analogy of the fertilization of plants by pollen renders development from without conceivable, but as there are no insects to convey gemmules to their destination, each kind of gemmule would have to be exceedingly numerous and easily attracted from amongst an inconceivable number of other gemmules.
Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
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Dendrites branch repeatedly, and their surfaces are studded with spines or gemmules, thus expanding the receptive cell surface.
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For our "plumule" we have also "gemmule", and French has both of these too.
Languagehat.com: PLUMULE.
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Therefore in many of such lower organisms such a congeries of ancestral gemmules must exist in every part of their bodies, since in them every part is capable of reproducing by gemmation.
On the Genesis of Species
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Each gemmule, according to Mr. Darwin, is really the seat of powers, elective affinities, and special tendencies as marked and mysterious as those possessed by the physiological unit of Mr. Spencer, with the single exception that the former has no tendency to build up the whole living, complex organism of which it forms a part.
On the Genesis of Species
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It is remarkable that Mr. Darwin brings forward in support of gemmule fission, the observation that "Thuret has seen the zoospore of an alga divide itself, and both halves germinate.
On the Genesis of Species
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Yet on the hypothesis of Pangenesis, the zoospore of an alga must contain gemmules from all the cells of the parent algæ, and from all the parts of all their less remote ancestors in all their stages of existence.
On the Genesis of Species
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Who cares, after all, that Darwin got his physical theory of inheritance wrong (basing it on a nonexistent entity called the "gemmule")?
What's Not in Your Genes
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The "gemmule" of a Halimeda contained several articulations united, ready to burst their envelope, and become attached to some basis.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
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Some species also form internal buds, called gemmules, which can survive extremely unfavorable conditions that cause the rest of the sponge to die.
