Word: protoplasm
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Much of it is due to shortsighted overselling of the possibilities of evolutionary progress. Darwin's theories showed that man had evolved from primordial protoplasm. But that evolution from a lower to a higher form of life had taken some two billion years. (Biologist H. J. Muller has graphically illustrated how long it took by imagining the span of time since life first appeared on earth as a trip along a tape running 90 miles from beyond New Haven to the center of a desk on Wall Street. Man appears 7 ½ feet from the center.) Darwin...
While experimenting in 1948, Geneticist Hannes Laven of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz discovered that common mosquitoes from Paris that were mated with members of the same species from Hamburg would not produce offspring. The reason for this sterility, he determined, was a difference in the cytoplasm (the protoplasm surrounding the cell nucleus) between the Paris and Hamburg strains of mosquitoes. Because of this difference, the egg cells of the females of one strain could not accept the sperm cells from males of the other strain, causing the female to lay infertile eggs. This Franco-German incompatibility...
Sometimes a caulobacter attaches the end of its stalk to the body wall of a bacterium of another species and feeds by sucking out the victim's protoplasm...
Lois Hook asks: "Whatever will the churches say when the biochemists successfully synthesize protoplasm?" Answer: simply that God has at last let them in on one of his own formulas...
Whatever will the churches say when the biochemists successfully synthesize protoplasm...