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Agriculture · Q927

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 927

Q927

The term Germplasm was given by

A.
Johansen
B.
Betson
C.
Weismann
Answer
D.
Muller

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The term Germplasm was given by Weismann.
Germplasm is a biological concept developed in the 19th century by the German biologist August Weismann.
It states that heritable information is transmitted only by germ cells in the gonads, not by somatic cells. The part of Weismann's theory that proved most vulnerable was his notion that the germ plasm was successively reduced during the division of somatic cells.