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menu poiut also to the se])Brate and distinct chemical constitution of the chromatin.

The principle formulated by Cuvier, that the distinctive property of life is the maintenance of the individual specific furm throughout

��Pio. 4. 8. Seiuota WatJilnatonIn or gliinntfa. He, Tell ol Scflriiifa »€mperitrcn», showing ihe cbromosomes (chromiilJii liodlps). T, THIIIum. Tc. Cell ot TriUitim teMiilr, vnr. glynnleum, Bhowlng the chromosomeB In the same phnse nud with the Batne Dnigniacatlon as In the cell ot Seqnaln iSi:).

the incessant changes of matter which occur in the inflow and outflow of ener^', acquires wider sco|>e in the law of the continuity of the germ plasm (i. e., chromatin), auno«nccd by Weisraann in 1883, for it is in

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